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The taxpayers of NC are paying $41.5 million for 100 jobs.
Or $415,000 per job.
Why not just pay 100 people $400,000 to not work and save money?
Commented May 27, 2009 on Apple of Their Eye at Red Clay Citizen
Apple of Their Eye
As reported in today's N&O, the NC House admitted that North Carolina's business climate is so bad that it has to bribe companies to locate here - or as the N&O reports: The state House voted overwhelmingly Tuesday in favor of tax incentives designed to lure Apple Computer to North Carolina. The...
I better crack your top 1000 list somehow.
Commented May 26, 2009 on Max Borders's Top Ten Public Intellectuals at Max Borders
Max Borders's Top Ten Public Intellectuals
These are in no particular order and based on the Max Borders scale of coolness, bad-assedness and awesomeness: 1. Steven Pinker 2. Matt Ridley 3. Daniel Dennett 4. Tyler Cowen 5. Ron Bailey 6. Christopher Hitchens 7. Jonathan Rauch 8. Amity Shlaes 9. Stuart Kauffman 10. William Easterly
What's most troubling for me is the fact that the interest rate that the Town is charging on the loan is only 2%. That's probably about a quarter of the rate they would pay if they went to a bank.
So we have government now undercutting the private market in a business government shouldn't even be in.
Nothing like the People's Republic of Carrboro to not only attempt kill freedom of the press, but the free market as well in one swoop.
Commented May 21, 2009 on Take the Money and Run at Red Clay Citizen
Take the Money and Run
Presumably, many who work or have worked in the news industry are perplexed by a decision made by two-year old Carrboro Citizen weekly to take (and the Carrboro Town Council should be pilloried, but probably not in the Carrboro Citizen, for offering) public funds in order to nearly double its we...
I checked my facts by my firsthand experience when I rented a place out there.
Sorry I didn't check every community, but if you would like to front me the cash to secure a rental in every town, I'll be happy to come back and do some more investigating.
Just wondering Bob, where do you take the recycling and garbage since Basnight will not let any new landfills be built anywhere in the state?
Commented May 14, 2009 on Ban on Plastic Bags? at Red Clay Citizen
Ban on Plastic Bags?
The Senate State and Local Government Committee gave its approval today to a modified version of SB 1018. The original bill banned retailers from providing plastic bags to customers and could only provide paper bags that were made from recycled materials. The bill approved today would limit the c...
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