You say Hotel I say Baseball =Shell Game

In an guest column in the newspaper, Ron Reinking cites the pitfalls of local government attempting to commingle tax dollars with private dollars for economic development. The commingling of tax dollars with private dollars could becomes like the shell game pea. How do you determine where is which? The tax payers don't want to have to guess. Reinking provides an examples of a private investor's decision to do business in Muncie over Bowling Green.

Here is an early editorial by Reinking concerning the downtown parking garage renamed the Plaza Garage. Ron Reinking wrote this article about tax dollars used for public relation events for promoting government venturing into the private business using tax dollars. Reinking cites, the failed downtown parking garage that was created from the spectre of fear that was spread about the downtown area. The garage was built for protection for the government workers believing that the expense would be recouped from the use by citizens needing parking downtown? For what, they find that out as the garage lost money.

I called it hiding the baseball.