City of Palm Bay spends taxpayer money to promote higher taxes

I received the memo below from Palm Bay City Councilwoman Kristine Isnardi, the only Palm Bay City Council member to vote “no” on the Palm Bay Works Referendum.

It seems the City of Palm Bay wasn’t content to have the Greater Palm Bay Chamber of Commerce lead the charge in promoting the referendum. Nope, they actually spent taxpayer dollars and paid staff to put out signs to promote the referendum.
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So Many Errors, So Little Time

The following missive was sent to the brevardpoliticaljournal.com in response to an article I had written identifying the latest Palm Bay tax-borrow-and-spend ‘job creation’ program to the New Deal of President Franklin Roosevelt and his Brain Trusters. I have always said once an individual moves off the track of facts and moves onto the tracks of personalities, it is a sure fire way of knowing they realize they have lost their argument on its merits. The author below clearly recognizes his cause is lost on the factual debate. So, let me respond to as many comments below as I can in one night.
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What is Seen, and What is Not Seen in Palm Bay

More than 150 years ago Frederic Bastiat wrote his famous essay, “What is seen, and what is not seen”. As the City of Palm Bay moves to put their Mini-Me New Deal to the ballot, what is seen is money will be spent by the city ($13 million) to allegedly create jobs.

What is not seen is how many jobs may have been created had the citizens been permitted to spend their own money as they saw fit. The entire thought of of a city taxing people (a job destroying mechanism) to create other jobs is a scene straight from the Michael Moore film of years ago, Roger and Me, where the city of Flint, Michigan, bedeviled by thousands of laid off autoworkers, builds a tourist attraction called Auto World to ‘stimulate’ tourism and ‘create’ jobs. I expect Palm Bay will be as successful as Flint.
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The Palm Bay New Deal: Palm Bay Works 2009

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It’s 1933 again in Palm Bay 

Palm Bay, following the leads of Franklin Roosevelt, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, is planning to go to referendum to get Palm Bay working again! I understand paving roads and although I do not trust the numbers being given by the City of Palm Bay , I really do understand asphalt.

 That said, embedded in a referendum which should be about major road improvement we find:

• Provide $8M for a job creation grant program, $2M for infrastructure improvements related to job creation, and $3M for existing local business expansion and job retention grants.

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Palm Bay & Fellsmere Sign Joint Planning Agreement (JPA)

Palm Bay, FL ― Two cities in two different counties and in different state and metropolitan planning districts are coming together in a unique and unprecedented partnership in order to promote successful and sustainable growth for the future. Read more