It’s a rather lengthy story, Star subscribers can read it here.
A lot of good arguments were made Tuesday night which are covered in the story. Here is one of the better ones:
…… David Schneck, of C Street, another past opponent of the SID, further discussed the nature of the membership process.
“I ask every year, please make it volunteer,” Mr. Schneck said. “Is it worth having these people so upset to get the money?
“We’re suppose to have freedom of association in the country,” he said. “You’re not supposed to force people to be a part of an organization they don’t want to be a part of.”
Referring to the previous speakers, Mr. Schneck asked the council to consider whether taking an action that clearly bothers some business owners in town is necessary.
A compromise, he said, would be to let businesses formed prior to the establishment of the SID to choose whether or not to join the BBP, and requiring newer businesses to join.
The current method, he said, is “mean.”
“It’s using force against people who are minding their own business, literally,” Mr. Schneck said. “Voluntary society is really the way to go. The most compassionate way to run a society is through voluntary action between people, not the use of force.”……
You see, to me the true measure of any society is the degree to which the use of force has been eliminated as a factor in human relationships. Unfortunately our mayor disagrees:
……..Mayor Doherty rejected the concerns regarding the involuntary nature of BBP membership, and said while solutions like those proposed by Ms. Dallaportas and Mr. Schneck might sound appealing, to the brough, they are not practical.
“We can have these philosophical arguments about the use of force, and whether or not a business should be able to operate on its own,” the mayor said. “On a piece of paper, in macroeconomics class, that all makes sense, but nothing in the real word occurs in a vacuum.”…..
Politicians always find freedom to be impractical because it interferes with their own agendas but actually, in the real world, wonderful things happen when freedom and rule of law is respected by government. It’s not a coincidence that all the richest countries in the world are also the freest.
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I hope Ms. O’Reilly is happy building across from the Brielle school but can’t imagine why Belmar money should be used there. In fact I also do not under stand why the building owners get a tax reduction and the business gets to pick up the slack. In fact the whole of all of it is like scrambled eggs no one who should doesn’t know what is going on. It is like scrambled eggs all mixed up.
That was a typo. He meant Belmar, not Brielle.
The article, is a perfect example of the disaster that is downtown Belmar. The SID paid over $8,000 for a billboard on the NJ Turnpike,that was real smart.
Real world golden rule: He with the most gold rules. No vacuum there or philosophical theatre of speculation. This whole SID thing seems like another version of mandatory pay-to-play. With luck as a wild card.
No person or business should be forced to join any group.
Politicians do not have the right to force a business owner to join / pay a group. Ugh.
The people of Cuba were just liberated, how about the business owners of Belmar?
If macroeconomics only works in the classroom and not in real life then why teach it? I take it that the Mayor is not an economist.
“We can have these philosophical arguments about the use of force, and whether or not a business should be able to operate on its own,” the mayor said. “On a piece of paper, in macroeconomics class, that all makes sense, but nothing in the real word occurs in a vacuum.”…..
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In Matt’s defense, I’m sure he has little to no idea of what he’s saying and less experience in the logistics of doing business.
Why is all the effort dedicated to attracting more people to Belmar? …. We don’t want all those people …. we just want their money.
Like the mayors comments, which may read well in print, they always seem to be canned mumbo-jumbo.
In reference to my comment(#1)I was being
glib. I think you should know that some of that money is going to the new arcade across from the school. I wonder why that is happening? Why is a business like that in a school zone? I also think that the SID money is another fund that
any one that speaks for it doesn’t seem to know what is going on. Why?
the SID money is another fund that doesn’t seem to account to anyone.
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