Make The Little People Pay

Dayton Daily News:

Austin Landing workers who do not work in offices within the $150 million development may soon have to pay a 2.25 percent income tax.
Recently designated boundaries for a joint economic development exclude – at least for now – office buildings housing the Teradata headquarters and a growing list of tenants, including the developer, RG Properties. Also excluded from income taxation will be upper floors of buildings around the development’s town center, set aside as offices.
“The developer has agreed he will include hospitality, entertainment and retail (in the taxing district),” Assistant Administrator Greg Rogers said after the Miami Twp. trustees voted unanimously earlier this week to approve the boundaries.
So for now, workers at a recently opened Kohl’s department store, a Kroger supermarket expected to open before Christmas as well as employees of a hotel, cinema, restaurants and stores expected to open by August 2013 would pay the income tax. Construction workers in the district also would be subject to the tax, said Steve Stanley, executive director of the Montgomery County Transportation Improvement District.
“It’s obviously attractive to have office uses that are not subject to the tax,” Miami Twp. Administrator Greg Hanahan said, while referring subsequent questions about the buildings left outside the boundaries to RG President Randy Gunlock, who did not respond to requests for his perspective.

What a screwjob!  So the developer and all the white-collar people don't have to pay 2.25% income tax, but the lowly retail workers do?  And all they are doing is stealing jobs from other localities.  What a fucking crock of shit.  Don't forget that RG Properties managed to get the state and local government to spend an assload of money ($75 million) to build them an interchange on I-75 right at their property.   This is how they pay us back.  Fuckers.  This may not be illegal, but it is clearly immoral.  I hope Kohl's stocks torches and pitchforks.