Borillar
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posted on March 30, 2002 08:00:12 PM new
I was just watching a business report on TV and there was a very short quip about a county in Kansas that is trying to raise money by changing their county name to a corporate name - namely Coca-Cola!
Yes, because of the short-fall of tax money, the county board now has their county name up for lease. Instead of say, Saline County, Kansas, (I can't remember for sure which one) it would officially become Coca-Cola County for a specified number of years. The value of such advertising revenue has been placed at tens of millions of dollars.
I guess it's the way of things to come. Eventually, your home town's name could be up for lease to Sony or Toshiba (Toshibaville?), your county name, and who knows what other official names could be for sale to replace tax burdens everywhere!
Me, I hate the idea and think that these people doing this should be shot!
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gravid
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posted on March 31, 2002 03:39:26 AM new
But only on pay-per-view.
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Borillar
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posted on March 31, 2002 10:32:43 AM new
You like the idea of county names being leased for advertising, gravid?
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gravid
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posted on March 31, 2002 10:55:07 AM new
NO NO - Just pay per view when you shoot them for it. Surely they would have no objection...fits their reasoning.
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alwaysbroke
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posted on April 4, 2002 08:46:23 AM new
I guess "Coke County" would be a bad idea.
I think our county should be named after a famous boat corp. What's a big boat name?
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krs
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posted on April 4, 2002 08:54:35 AM new
Evin RUDE
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alwaysbroke
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posted on April 4, 2002 09:27:14 AM new
Rude County?
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plsmith
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posted on April 4, 2002 10:29:00 AM new
Actually, this has the potential to become quite funny if more companies will get in on the act. Maps featuring such locations as Tampax, Tennessee; Preparation-H, Pennsylvania; Vagisil, Virginia; Depends, Delaware, and so forth, will become instant collectibles.
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alwaysbroke
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posted on April 4, 2002 01:59:18 PM new
plsmith
ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Borillar
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posted on April 6, 2002 11:03:44 AM new
Are you so used to advertising being shoved into your face that you're too jaded to care if our city and county names become corporate property on not?
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gravid
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posted on April 6, 2002 11:59:57 AM new
I can see that big mouthed black woman that does the ads for Milk of Magnesia as spokeswoman for Milk of Magnesia Montana.
I am waiting for the ad where she gets her divorce papers.
I assume that who ever bought the name would get their logo on all the police cars and firetrucks? All the cit workers would wear a jacket with a big embroidered logo?
You know I might go for living in "Ford Michigan the blue oval city" if they covered all my property taxes and special assesments.
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plsmith
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posted on April 6, 2002 12:03:01 PM new
Borillar, are you too thistle-headed to understand that the local governments that run these cities and counties are already corporately owned? It isn't you and I that fill the campaign coffers of these people -- it's the companies who have an interest in the way their businesses are treated by the people who make the decisions.
Frankly, if my county -- Alameda -- wants to become Absorbine Jr. and can generate enough money from the deal to hire more firefighters (for example) I'm all for it.
There really are bigger fish to fry, friend.
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gravid
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posted on April 6, 2002 12:43:52 PM new
For years I lived in Akron Ohio and the City government had an understanding with the Rubber companies that they would keep other big industries out and they would work together to keep a reasonable tax base for the city. They never avoided property taxes and contributed generously to the Arts the University and Hospitals.
The city drove away International Harvestor and many other big companies that looked into moving in in the 50's 60's and 70's. The rubber companies had pretty much a captive labor market and there was never good roads from Akron into Cleveland so you could not commute easily - especially in the winter when you got lake effect snow.
Then within less than a decade ALL the rubber companies moved all their production facilities to the South where there was cheap labor. The only thing they left was the Administrative offices and the small specialized things like racing tires and earthmover tires that were too expensive to move.
What did the city get for all their years of taking care of the rrubber companies?
A lesson in being too trusting.
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alwaysbroke
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posted on April 6, 2002 12:46:18 PM new
"Ford Michigan the blue oval city"
Oh my, that's catchy. Has a nice ring to it. You better copyright that before it's taken!
Purina, the checkerboard city? Not quite as suave.
Knox, the blocks town
Dreamcatcher, the dream of a town?
3M, MMM MMM good (oh, that's Campbell's)
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alwaysbroke
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posted on April 6, 2002 12:51:30 PM new
"if my county -- Alameda -- wants to become Absorbine Jr."
I laughed so hard I couldn't control the mouse.
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Borillar
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posted on April 6, 2002 06:18:42 PM new
It's just another way for corporations to inch in more on our civil liberties.
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gravid
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posted on April 6, 2002 06:46:53 PM new
I am honestly not understanding what liberty would be lost by living in Coca Cola county?
The right to free speech to favor Pepsi?
Must be these narcotic patches I'm trying. I seem to be a little slowwwww lately.
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