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CRAZY GOING OUT OF SESSION GIVEAWAYS!

April 23, 2007

It's the wild, crazy, going out of session giveaway at the Iowa General Assembly. Those guys are giving away everything that's not nailed down! Everything must go!

Starting with tax breaks for EarthPork, the indoor rainforest jungledome proposed for Des Moines Coralville Dubuque Grinnell Riverside Pella. HSB 315 would let the owners of EarthPark charge and keep sales taxes - the same deal given to the Newton Speedway.

Bill Dotzler, flush from giving away a bunch of our money to finance filmmakers, now is looking to give away even more!

Dotzler said Earthpark "has the potential to be a huge tourism draw." He said, "I think this is going to be a huge economic engine for central Iowa."

Those crazy legislators are also giving away the store to lure an undisclosed web search company (Yahoo? Google?) to locate here. Some company is playing states against one another to get the sweetest possible subsidy package, which the rest of us get to pay for. This has produced HF 912, a package of sales and property tax breaks.

When it comes to giving away our money, our legislature won't be outdone! But lobby now, while there is still money left to give away. It can't last forever! And follow all of the crazy hijinks at our 2007 Iowa tax legislation page.

More coverage of EarthPork tax breaks here.

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