Game Plan

Daniel Shelton
dpshelton@blogspot.com
Eng. 201.501
Essay 2 Game Plan
400 words


I chose to pursue the second option where I investigate a point of interest. I chose this option because it will help me to become more aware of the world around me through exploration on what is now in the past but was once a major issue. The topic that I have chosen to write about is the creation of a food and beverage tax to fund the construction and maintenance of the new Lucas Oil Stadium in the city of Indianapolis. This paper is intended for the open-minded and sensible; for someone who believes that freedom comes from education and vigilance. This paper is for people who believe that they deserve to know how their hard earned money is being spent and if it is really being spent on what they were told it would be spent on. The best sources for this paper are obviously state and local websites that give a detailed budget layout and lists of income and expenditures through past fiscal years, the state senate and house along with local legislature records where they debated on the bill, websites that will outline the effects that the food and beverage tax has had on restaurants, soda companies, and grocery stores throughout the state. Process analysis will be the mode that will be most utilized in this paper, but cause and effect will be helpful when I talk about how businesses have been effect by the tax rise on most foods and soda. What I have so far are some of the debates from different legislatures from different counties, mostly surrounding Marion County, in Indiana that debated the need of a food and beverage tax. I have an article from the Evansville area that quotes mayor Weinzapfel condemning the passage of the food and beverage tax in Vanderburgh County. I plan to research more into how much money the state and local area governments bring in from the food and beverage tax, how much, if not all, goes to Lucas Oil Stadium, if the funds brought in from the new tax are not enough where does the state get the rest of the money, and how business in the areas that passed the food and beverage tax have fared, whether they have seen a decrease in business or no real change in the amount of business.