Using the legislature to try and gain an edge over competition and to fight the people you have to work with is an all to common but ineffective way to go about business. It’s the main reason home builders can’t afford to buy the insurance they need to build reasonably priced condominiums.
Instead of delivering the promised “living wage” of $15 an hour, economic realities created by the new law have dropped the hourly wage for these workers to zero.
“People with low incomes” are most vulnerable to the supermarkets’ sly manipulation of product placement, according to Cohen. Such condescension is a hallmark of progressives, who are eager to protect the poor from themselves. They don’t have much money, and so they need help on how to spend it.
A group called Colorado Consumers for Choice, backed by the supermarkets, is working up an initiative for the 2016 ballot that would permit all groceries to sell wine, beer and, possibly, stronger liquors.
The elderly, minorities, and urban poor are most at risk from the EPA’s onerous anti-energy regulations.
The elderly, minorities, and urban poor are most at risk from the EPA’s onerous anti-energy regulations.
If the minimum wage helps people live, it creates more jobs, it does all of these wonderful things by itself, then why stop at 15 dollars an hour?
Common sense tells most of us that government needs to shift its priorities, to stop growing social welfare programs at the expense of schools and transportation.
Littleton currently has four separate urban renewal projects going, despite the colossal failure of its Riverfront project back in the 1980s. That is reported to have cost the city $9 million — and the private investors almost three times that.
The irony in this situation is that I am afraid that we are subsidizing the building of future slum and blight where there is no slum and blight today.
The irony in this situation is that I am afraid that we are subsidizing the building of future slum and blight where there is no slum and blight today.
…when the bonds for a project are typically paid off in 25 years, “you’re about ready to tear it down and build another one. So you never get any of the tax increment.”
