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Reprinted from Indy Tax Dollars blog, written by long-time Indianapolis business leader Fred McCarthy.

INDIANAPOLIS, IN -- The headline in this morning's paper (9/15/08) reads, "MSA site will remain empty for a while." We're talking about "...prime real estate three blocks from Monument Circle."

We're talking about a site that has been off the property tax rolls for 34 years. We're also talking about a site that has been a ground level parking lot for 7 years while bureaucratic "planners" and economic "developers" have been unable to come up with the "right" use of the land. It goes on and on!

Reprinted from Indy Tax Dollars blog, written by long-time Indianapolis business leader Fred McCarthy.

INDIANAPOLIS, IN -- Do you read the comments made on the websites you frequent? We do, and sometimes find them at least as interesting as the original post. But we seldom find one as startling as the one which showed up on our last post.

In answer to one of the questions we had asked - "What happened to the money? - a reader responded , "I don't know and I don't care." We were inquiring about the revenues raised by the Food and Beverage Tax which have not been applied to the principal of the original RCA Dome debt.

Reprinted from Indy Tax Dollars blog, written by long-time Indianapolis business leader Fred McCarthy.

If it happened more frequently, one might wonder whether citizens of Indianapolis and Indiana were being taken for fools intentionally - and successfully.