just because a company has a presence in Coos County does not mean it is local. Verizon, Frontier, Pacific Power, Safeway and Walmart, Oregon Resources and yes, Waste Connections may all do business here but their profits exit the county the moment you pay them for goods or services
Read MoreThe greatest assets are undervalued to benefit private groups that heretofore have failed to reinvest in the area and create new jobs.
Read MoreSome of the multinational corporations say they will bring home what could be more than a trillion dollars if Congress will give them an 85 percent tax discount. The companies frame this as creating jobs. But as I showed in an earlier column, unless there are strict rules, the money can be used to buy back company stock while destroying jobs.
Read MoreListen to the people packing Zuccotti Park, a privately owned urban space just off Wall Street, and you will hear common themes from libertarians and liberals, truck drivers and college professors, atheists and believers.
Read MoreIt is really unconscionable that the commissioners would invite people who think all public workers are parasites, “living off the backs of others” to be anywhere near our county employees. Shame on all three of them.
Read MoreJon Barton, who by the way, was terrible disrespectful to a community volunteer filming the proceedings, made it clear that he viewed the committee’s job as a fact finding and evaluating job which would later be shared with the public in the form of recommendations to the BOC and that they were not empaneled to answer questions from the public.
Read MoreIn summary, SCDC has brought in more than a $1 million dollars in “gifts, grants, contributions and membership fees” since 2005. Also, Sandy Messerle is salary and payroll contributions total almost $66,000 annually compared to the late Ron Optiz who pulled down more than $80,000. Public relations and travel account for more than 50% of the non payroll expenses in 2010. Finally, SCDC cumulative income has more than doubled in the last three years.
Read MoreDavid Cay Johnston writes about the grand experiment that is ‘supply side economics’ that somehow “lower tax rates will encourage more investment, which in turn will mean more jobs”. Unfortunately thirty years of data indicate the theory is a failure
Read MoreCajoled by slick marketing schemes and advertising paid for an promoted by the government, poor people are voluntarily giving up 1/5th of their income in the hope of improving their lives. David Cay Johnston, in his column for Tax.com says that while most state lotteries were sold as a means to raise money for schools, “Ticket sales have to rise by 21 percent just to make up for the reduction in money going to education.”
Read MoreEconomic nonsense is being reported as fact in most of the news reports on the Wisconsin dispute, the product of a breakdown of skepticism among journalists multiplied by their lack of understanding of basic economic principles.
Read MoreKids may have to take the initiative to educate policy makers because adults are not paying attention and kids are suffering all around the globe.
Read MoreEloquent writers and pundits are debating the news industry handling of the Wikileaks brouhaha
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