David Glover doesn't even live in OKC

[Karried]

Some Oklahoma City Public Schools officials have expressed regret about losing the mayor's tax dollars to another school district.

I'll bet they do. Exactly why we need to get people interested in moving back to OKC.

Bring on a pro team, build up the city, progress, bring more jobs, more corporations, more housing, more property tax bills .. more money.... there, you'll have your money for your schools. It's a no-brainer.

[betts]

My property tax dollars have always gone to the city (with a brief, regrettable stop over in Deer Creek for a few years), but I'm excited about potentially moving them to a more needy district. If this vote passes, I'll be living downtown, which is precisely why I believe an NBA team is going to impact our city. I don't think I'm alone in being able to get excited about moving downtown if we've got a team and more things to do there. I don't really understand why our former mayor would choose to live in Mulholland over Heritage Hills, but like us, he may find out that it's a lot more convenient living in the city.

[metro]

Although I agree that's the case, what hasn't been said is that for everyone who has any sort of transportation, this is a voluntary tax. Warr Acres claim to fame is their lower sales tax, so if people from there shop in OKC, that's their choice. Same with the Village. Although there's not a shopping center in the Village, you can certainly do your grocery shopping within the Village, and people who don't want to pay the tax can buy big ticket items online or in one of the suburbs. Most people without transportation probably fall within the group eligible for a sales tax refund or rebate. So, although they don't get to vote, people from any of the burbs also don't have to shop.

Actually betts, this argument no longer applies. You are semi-correct in that Warr Acres PAST claim to fame used to be 1 cent lower sales tax, but last year they passed a one-cent sales tax raise and now they have the same tax rate as OKC and several suburbs.

[solitude]

Actually betts, this argument no longer applies. You are semi-correct in that Warr Acres PAST claim to fame used to be 1 cent lower sales tax, but last year they passed a one-cent sales tax raise and now they have the same tax rate as OKC and several suburbs.

I pointed that out to her in post 54 of this thread.

Too bad they had to do that, but they've really had some rough times haven't they? They had a similar situation as the Village when they lost all that WalMart sales tax revenue.

[Dustbowl]

My property tax dollars have always gone to the city (with a brief, regrettable stop over in Deer Creek for a few years), but I'm excited about potentially moving them to a more needy district. If this vote passes, I'll be living downtown, which is precisely why I believe an NBA team is going to impact our city. I don't think I'm alone in being able to get excited about moving downtown if we've got a team and more things to do there. I don't really understand why our former mayor would choose to live in Mulholland over Heritage Hills, but like us, he may find out that it's a lot more convenient living in the city.

Betts: I was incorrect that Humphreys still lives in Mulholland. He moved to HH in 2006.

[solitude]

Can I delete my own thread here? I can't find it.

I have edited this post since the moderators have removed Metro's post.

[bombermwc]

Some of you people are funny. I live in the Village, if you look at a map it is surrounded by OKC. Most of my spending is in OKC, but that doesn't matter. This is a tax vote, that will impact everyone. It will cost the average OKC resident $150 (every man, woman and child). These are the city's numbers - not mine. The taxpayers would fund changes to the arena so a new tenant can make more money. 90% of he people I talk with are against corporate welfare.

Quite a far cry from your talk at the council meeting. So you've gone from $500 a person down to $150, which isn't accurate. It's not the city's numbers...they say it's not their number too.

Your own comments here invalidate your arguement. You based your arguement that of numbers on the population of OKC...not the metro. And yet here you are talking about how you spend all your money in OKC. And 90% huh....I'm sure you have a legitimate source for that number as well. If you start looking around town at the big businesses we have, you'll see most of them got some benefit/tax cut. And if they didn't, we wouldnt have the jobs and they would be in another city with the benefits. It's a pointless arguement that won't hold water.

I'm really tired of these guys tring to make themselves important. They create this little group that says they speak for the community, which they don't, and then slander the hard work of the city to make something out of itself. I see no legitimate basis for your claimed representation of anything but your own interests. Plus, if it's such an important issue, where were you for all the other projects that were similar?

We'll see Tuesday that the city completely disagrees with you.
We'll see Tuesday how the majority is ready to vote yes to keep us moving.
We'll see Tuesday how OKC won't fall into the trap that Tulsa did because our planners are creating PUBLIC projects, not private. NO matter what you say, it's a public project.