Skin feeling a little tingly? It’s BID creep. Remember that creepy Business Improvement District whose pursuit team got everybody to put their guard down by saying their proposal, amidst budget uncertainties and damages, is off the table? It’s ba-ack. Creeping into your pocketbook requesting a 7 percent tax increase for starters, the biddy BID has the NERVE to put its bylaws on the agenda for approval at the next Asheville City Council meeting. The strategists are banking on citizens’ stupidity. We may all be dull Crayons, born yesterday and today fallen off the turnip truck so we never made it around the block once. Even so, we is smart enough to knows yous is gonna say the approval of the bylaws is harmless and irrelevant only to bring it back with the presumption that city council must have wanted it, otherwise they wouldn’t have approved the bylaws. Been there, done that, sick and tired of more government taking more tax dollars to do stupid things while the people are hurting. Can the beast of a BID die by any means short of an invocation of the tyrannical powers of Tim Moffitt?

Oh, Moffy?

I now dedicate the following, from a song by the Scorpions, to each good person supporting the BID:

I laid down my defenses
I opened up the door
I gave you what you wanted
I couldn’t give you more
And I gave you everything
You said it’s all or nothing
To you it’s just a game
A game you’re never losing

You were once a friend to me
Now you are my enemy
Passion turns to hate and you make
Hate worth fighting for
I will re-write history
And you will not exist to me
On the day you crossed the line
I found out love is war.