Though I fully support the idea behind this - making clear the indirect, unseen support from citizens that allows corporations to look like a better idea than they really are - I think you'd be relatively hard pressed to find a business that does not benefit somehow from government subsidies. The small local trucking company depends on enormous public expenditures to afford the fuel they use, and their trucks wear down our publicly-maintained road surfaces at a higher rate than they compensate us for. Xcel, plastic manufacturers, and other air polluters benefit indirectly from our insurance premiums and the money we contribute to public hospitals, by not having to pay for the health problems their pollution creates. General Mills uses our aquifer, a good source of drinking water, to cool their machines, ruining it for human consumption, without compensating us. Etc, etc.
Robin Garwood Seward -----Original Message----- From: Victoria Heller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 8:14 AM To: Mpls Forum Subject: [Mpls] Boycott Target and other Corporate Parasites..... I would like to know which Minneapolis businesses loot the public treasury and which ones do not. The guilty will not identify themselves - so I would like to start a trend whereby innocent businesses (large and small) proudly post the following message: "THIS BUSINESS DOES NOT TAKE GOVERNMENT HANDOUTS!" My money will go to these businesses only. If people start asking businesses (and landlords) "Have you received public subsidies in any form?" - we can quickly separate those who pull the cart from those who ride on the cart. If the MCDA doesn't stonewall my efforts, I will compile and publish a list of corporate and real estate parasites. Proudly posted by: Victoria Heller North Oaks Cedar-Riverside Property Owner (Ward 2) - where mob rule supercedes law _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
