“He’ll tax the pennies on your eyes” cantaban los Beatles sobre el intrusivo cobrador de impuestos. Ahora el alcalde de San Francisco desea gravar sus colillas.
El mes próximo, el alcalde Gavin Newsom planea solicitar a la Junta de Supervisores de San Francisco que imponga un impuesto de 33 centavos sobre cada atado de cigarrillos que se venda localmente, justificándolo como una forma de obligar a los fumadores a pagar por la limpieza de las calles de la
Crime is a major issue that must be solved in the city of Oakland, yet the city cannot provide the leadership for an effective police department. The latest political kickball involving the police is in the budget crisis.
Oakland is facing a huge budget deficit, nearly $100 million, that must be closed by June 30, 2009. The Mayor and his City Administrator Dan Lindhiem
Across the country, politicians are responding to the inability of a population devastated by government-induced recession to support governments’ spending at levels they have grown accustomed to by threatening the closure of schools, firehouses, and other high-profile, highly-valued government “services.” I have opined elsewhere on the reasons that such high-profile programs—rather than the thousands of highly-paid bureaucrats whose
Si usted es dueño, inversionista, proveedor o empleado de General Motors Corp., apostaría a que actualmente lamenta que GM no fuera obligada a solicitar protección bajo el Capítulo 11 de la ley de bancarrota de los Estados Unidos cuando sus horrendos resultados financieros alcanzaron los titulares