First of all I would like to apologize if I offended anyone. I thought that my post was my interpretation of the information I came accross. Also, I thought this is a forum not an agreeium. History is full of what the sociolist calle Groupthink (Bay of Pigs Invasion, Holocaust, etc).
I have lived in Greenville for over 30 yrs. and still have a lot of family there and own a house there, so I do pay taxes there.
I would like to clarify some of my prior comments. When I said $30MM I meant to say that is the portion that GSP wants us to pay. The first part will only consist of $70MM, so they want us to pay more than 40% of the initial cost.
Cities, states and countries have usually only two sources of income, either they tax or they borrow. I understand that now a day they also own companies such as GM, Chrysler, etc. but that is not the norm. If a government spends 100 (lets say 30 for education, 40 for safety and 30 for admin) it must collect 100 or borrow the difference. So when I made my comment about education, what I tried to say was that the 30 that go to GSP will have to come from somewhere, and that means either they will tax us or they will borrow (from whom.......). Issuing bods, is the same as borrowing.
Regarding me been mad about SW going to GSP and not Atlanta, my answer is that I could care less either way, I just do not want to pay more taxes and I feel that an airport is not the source to bring more taxpayers here (if that is the case why doesn't Columbia or Asheville have more new companies in their areas after spending all that money in their respective airports).
I have gone to what is considered the best public school in Greenville and believe, it is nothing to be proud of and based on what I am been told, they have to provide ELS classes now so they even had to discontinue some of the classes because they do not have enough funding to educate the kids there.
As stated before, this airport has handled 1.8MM passengers before without any problems and can do this again.
The benefit of doing this will only be for about 100,000 people (most people who use the airport are repeated customers and travel on average 12 times a year).
Regarding the LEED, GSP has never been concerned with this or any minority programs, seems suspicious that now that they need additional funding suddenly this became important.
So, that is my opinion which I thought this is what this place is for. Remember even the president has some disenters in its cabinet in order to avoid bad decissions.
Again, sorry and I hope I did not offend anyone with my comments.
