Muda69

Thank you. I believe in being a well rounded individual. Keeps the mind young.

One can believe in personal choices and freedom are not to be meaningfully constrained by the state, and yet still be critical of an individual's choices. They are not mutually exclusive. I choose not to blindly contribute my hard-earned wealth to a state that kowtows to the wants of a billionaire and/or a billion dollar+ sports franchise. Doesn't matter if it is $1.23 or $123. A principled approach.

Thanks for the Catholicism lesson.

Not into Cosplay, sorry.

3 Bogus Economic Stats in Trump's State of the Union: https://reason.com/2026/02/24/3-bogus-economic-stats-in-trumps-state-of-the-union/ More B.S. from Mr. Trump. What does one expect?

Thriftiness is a virtue, is it not? Hmm, that is somebody apparently playing some kind of video game. Not what GenCon is primarily about. Nice try. Sorry that the truth hurts.

The world's largest tabletop gaming convention: https://www.gencon.com/ There may be some food truck vendors selling BPT's.

I feel it, but then again I must not be as wealthy as you. Food and hotel taxes are out of control. Good thing I only plan on being in the downtown Indianapolis area for one day this year, for GenCon 2026. Will be staying at a relative's place and will probably bring most of my own food. That makes it somewhat affordable for the average person.

Fiscal impact statement on Bears stadium bill outlines millions in tax increases: https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2026/02/23/fiscal-impact-statement-on-stadium-bill-outlines-millions-in-tax-increases/ Indiana: Land Of Taxes. "The Region" even more so. Yet another reason to stay away........

Go Kokomo Wildkats.

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2026/02/24/indiana-township-leaders-and-their-families-profit-from-contracts/88738153007/ Personally I'm ok with consolidation of township government, it could save taxpayers money and make them more efficient.

Agreed. But I believe this > $16 million threshold in order to have a vote is way to high. Should be more like $1 million.

Maybe. Wouldn't surprise me a bit.

It is the same bait-and-switch politicians use with property taxes. They say "we won't raise your property tax rate", which is true. But what they don't include is the insane amount of increases the county is making to the assessed valuations of people's homes. My home held pretty much the same assessed value, +/- around $5k, for the first twenty years we lived in it. Over the past 5-7 years the assessed valuation has gone up almost 100 percent, effectively doubling my yearly property taxes. And isn't it interesting these increased valuations occurred at around the same time the school corp was spending $30 million for renovating the high school, the city was spending millions on a new park downtown, a new water park, a new police station, and now a new fire station west of town. And the county was spending millions to build a new annex building on the courthouse square. Yet the city and county politiicans were screaming, "we did all of this without increasing the property tax rate!!!!!" What a scam...................

Ok. I'll say somewhere between $100 and $1,000,000. Happy now? Can you tell me how much you personally have paid to have Lucas Oil Stadium in the State of Indiana? And how much you are willing to personally pay to have a new Bears stadium built in Hammond? But it doesn't cost "nothing" to the taxpayers. They keep paying the same amount, where they could have paid less as a result of refinancing. I have refinanced my mortgage to get a better rate, which allows me to save a bit and pay off my mortgage sooner. I don't use the lower rate to buy more house.

If the refinancing is to obtain a better rate so the bond can be paid off sooner, then sure. If it is so they can spend even more taxpayers dollars on dubious projects under the umbrella of the existing bond, then no. That should be illegal. The existing bond should be 100% PAID OFF first before attempting to issue another. But then again I am not a municipal bond expert. Are you?

Has the specific location for this "premier venue" been released? You look at the "Wolf Lake area" using something Google maps and you see mostly industrial and residential areas. Edit: NM, found it. Kind of: https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/2026/02/19/wolf-lake-chicago-bears-moving-stadium-hammond-indiana/88759571007/

I like Munster Bears better than the Hammond or NWI Bears:

This is a loophole that allows government school corporations to basically nickel-and-dime it's taxpayer base in perpetuity.

Yes. And I have contacted the elected school board member who represents the district in which I live.

I've heard that Wolf Lake is basically a swamp, and it will take hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to even make such a site ready for the construction of something like a stadium, if it can be made ready at all. Is Wolf Lake one of the last vestiges of the Grand Kankakee Marsh, that was drained for agricultural use over a 150 years ago?: https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/articles/entry/northern-indianas-lost-marsh-grand-kankakee/

No, I don't know personally down to the penny what I have paid because of Lucas Oil. But I have paid it, just not for Colts games. As for other members of my family they have probably had to shell out a significant amount of $ due to the events they have attended. And one doesn't have to "figure it down to the penny" to have disdain for something that should be 100% financed by private enterprise.

Sounds like things are getting real: https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2026/02/19/chicago-bears-are-willing-to-invest-in-indiana-house-speaker-says/88754568007/ Yay! More taxes! Regions dwellers rejoice! And then there is this: https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-hearing-bears-stadium-canceled-hammond-indiana/

I was never presented with a vote opportunity for this current bond proposal put forward by CSF. I guess $16,000,000 is too small to be of concern for poor taxpayers.