Currents
May 2016
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Breach
L
ast Fall the City of Pompano Beach executed a
contract with Waste Management to re-launch the City's
waste disposal. Waste Management was to provide new pickup
receptacles for each household.
But largest change in the relaunch was day of the week pickups would change for most residents. For instance, Bulk Waste
pickup moved to Saturday from
Thursday.
That change of the day for
pickups along with reported failures to pickup by Waste Management, have left the City with
areas that have bulk pickup items
sitting on the curb for weeks. It
has been so bad the City had to
bring in two more waste trucks
for the clean up. The Sun Sentinel is reporting that the Vice
Mayor followed Waste Management trucks for two days and
found the trucks are not completing their routes, and the City
has sent Waste Management a
bill for $81k.
Corporate Walfare
Nicholas Kristof's (New York
Times) take on Corporate Welfare
is priceless, so I have brought his
full column for your reading
pleasure.
“We often hear how damaging welfare dependency is, stifling initiative and corroding the
human soul. So I worry about
the way we coddle executives in
their suites.
A recent study show that for
each dollar America's 50 biggest
companies paid in federal taxes
between 2008 and 2014, they
received $27 back in federal
loans, loan guarantees and
bailouts.
Goodness! What will that do
to their character? Won't that sap
their initiative?
The study was compiled by
Oxfam and it comes on top of a
mountain of evidence from international agencies and economic
journals underscoring the degree
to which major companies have
rigged the tax code.
O.K., O.K., I know you see the
words “tax code” and your eyes
desperately scan for something
else to read! Anything about a
sex scandal?
But hold on: The tax system is
rigged against us precisely
because taxation is the Least Sexy
Topic on Earth. So we doze, and
our pockets get picked.
John Oliver has a point when
he says, “If you want to do something evil, put it inside something
boring.” The beneficiaries of tax
distortions are counting on you
to fall asleep, but this is a topic as
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