Baltimore apparently wants to make their food deserts

[connieb]

even drier by running off small corner stores. Often the only places available for anything in many neighborhoods cause you know.. dealers also shop there.....
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-ci-pugh-stores-20180425-story.html

 

[marvin martian]

Those stores serve a legitimate need because bigger chains won't keep stores in places where they are constantly robbed, vandalized, and harassed.

 

[georgephillip]

even drier by running off small corner stores. Often the only places available for anything in many neighborhoods cause you know.. dealers also shop there.....
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-ci-pugh-stores-20180425-story.html

Is this part of the plan for the next big tax giveaway to Baltimore builders?

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=21601

"To get a sense of just how expensive Baltimore's latest tax break finance development deal is, you have to drive.

"The project will encompass huge swaths of the city's low-income neighborhoods, including a former outdoor mall called Old Town, and a low-income housing project, Perkins Homes.

"The city says the deal will span over 200 acres, and includes rebuilding a school, and a recreation center.

"But like many of the most recent deals to redevelop the city, who benefits and who doesn't paints a picture of just how Baltimore works for some and not for others.

"That's because Perkins and Old Town has suffered from decades of neglect and little direct investment, and its residents are mired in poverty."

 

[connieb]

Is this part of the plan for the next big tax giveaway to Baltimore builders?

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=21601

"To get a sense of just how expensive Baltimore's latest tax break finance development deal is, you have to drive.

"The project will encompass huge swaths of the city's low-income neighborhoods, including a former outdoor mall called Old Town, and a low-income housing project, Perkins Homes.

"The city says the deal will span over 200 acres, and includes rebuilding a school, and a recreation center.

"But like many of the most recent deals to redevelop the city, who benefits and who doesn't paints a picture of just how Baltimore works for some and not for others.

"That's because Perkins and Old Town has suffered from decades of neglect and little direct investment, and its residents are mired in poverty."

I am sorry, do you have me confused with someone who thinks that spending that kind of tax dollars to entice development is a good thing? Nopeity nope nope.

There are costs that a city should definitely bear in order to entice development - i.e. investing in new infrastructure, and I would go so far as paying some for the clean-up of industrial sites. Should developers get big tax breaks... uh. Nope.

Thus is the stupidity of your average democrat run city.

 

[Dawg]

No big box stores going to build where they burn down businesses/neighborhoods at the drop of a dime........

 

[georgephillip]

I am sorry, do you have me confused with someone who thinks that spending that kind of tax dollars to entice development is a good thing? Nopeity nope nope.

There are costs that a city should definitely bear in order to entice development - i.e. investing in new infrastructure, and I would go so far as paying some for the clean-up of industrial sites. Should developers get big tax breaks... uh. Nope.

Thus is the stupidity of your average democrat run city.

It's another example of the inherent instability of finance capitalism, regardless of which political party socializes the costs in order to privatize the profit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsky_moment

 

[Fast Eddy]

Idiots run the big cities. Baltimore is approaching Chicago in its failure mode. Get the loons out of city government and you are halfway home.

 

[Dawg]

no wonder they can't afford to heat their schools

 

[connieb]

It's another example of the inherent instability of finance capitalism, regardless of which political party socializes the costs in order to privatize the profit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsky_moment

Again why are you posting this crap to me as if I didn't hate crony capitalism?

 

[Dawg]

Again why are you posting this crap to me as if I didn't hate crony capitalism?

I had to put the communist in IGNORE
tired of hearing how bad his life is, works in a book store, makes "$20,000" a year, was "sleeping on friends couches and now in cheap apartments".........FTDS........."communist" and instead of working to improve his life, spends 24/7 here instead of working and expecting those that do work to support his damn communist ass...............

Negative.........heard and seen all I need to see......................

 

[georgephillip]

Again why are you posting this crap to me as if I didn't hate crony capitalism?

Why are you pretending there's any capitalism without cronies?

 

[Tor-Pete-O]

Why are you pretending there's any capitalism without cronies?

I earn every penny I make myself. Nobody has ever, EVER given me an insider "deal", a special "tip" or any type of "crony" assistance in the course of my business dealings in my entire working life. Not once.

Why do you pretend there is only capitalism with cronies?

 

[connieb]

Why are you pretending there's any capitalism without cronies?

There is capitalism with or without government dictating winners and losers.

 

[connieb]

I earn every penny I make myself. Nobody has ever, EVER given me an insider "deal", a special "tip" or any type of "crony" assistance in the course of my business dealings in my entire working life. Not once.

Why do you pretend there is only capitalism with cronies?

It pains them to admit they are failures, so they have to constantly assuage their feelings of inadequacy with contemplating how someone else "cheated" to get ahead.

 

[georgephillip]

I earn every penny I make myself. Nobody has ever, EVER given me an insider "deal", a special "tip" or any type of "crony" assistance in the course of my business dealings in my entire working life. Not once.

Why do you pretend there is only capitalism with cronies?

Do your "business dealings" pursue profit? If so, you are a crony capitalist.

http://www.socialistappeal.org/hist...ony-capitalismq-or-just-plain-capitalism.html

Capitalism requires a class of exploited workers and parasitic bosses, and everyone serves a process of competitive accumulation with a strong tendency of producing more centralized units of capital.

Big fish eat little fish, with those capitalists who prove most successful at bribing governments becoming the largest in the pond.

Any attempt to divorce capitalism from its historical roots misses the reality that crony capitalism is simply capitalism in its highest imperialist phase.

http://socialistreview.org.uk/366/myth-crony-capitalism

 

[georgephillip]

There is capitalism with or without government dictating winners and losers.

As capitalism matures, a mutual dependency develops between large multinational corporations and their native nation states since the state relies on its domestic companies to maintain international competitiveness, and companies depend on the state for favorable tax, trade, and labor policies.

Markets pressure governments, and competition within markets produces the regular use of personal influence by powerful capitalists to shape state policy.

"Cronyism, like greed, is not a cause of crisis, but a behavior typically rewarded by the normal workings of the free market."

http://socialistreview.org.uk/366/myth-crony-capitalism

 

[connieb]

As capitalism matures, a mutual dependency develops between large multinational corporations and their native nation states since the state relies on its domestic companies to maintain international competitiveness, and companies depend on the state for favorable tax, trade, and labor policies.

Markets pressure governments, and competition within markets produces the regular use of personal influence by powerful capitalists to shape state policy.

"Cronyism, like greed, is not a cause of crisis, but a behavior typically rewarded by the normal workings of the free market."

http://socialistreview.org.uk/366/myth-crony-capitalism

As capitalism matures, a mutual dependency develops between large multinational corporations and their native nation states since the state relies on its domestic companies to maintain international competitiveness, and companies depend on the state for favorable tax, trade, and labor policies.

Markets pressure governments, and competition within markets produces the regular use of personal influence by powerful capitalists to shape state policy.

"Cronyism, like greed, is not a cause of crisis, but a behavior typically rewarded by the normal workings of the free market."

http://socialistreview.org.uk/366/myth-crony-capitalism

Lol. Omg where do you all find this horseshit? I don't know what is more wack that idiots can write this kind of bunk and think they are creating serious analysis or that others buy it.

Capitalism is perverted by the imposition of rules by government, and to combat that useful idiots demand more government control. SMH.

 

[georgephillip]

Capitalism is perverted by the imposition of rules by government, and to combat that useful idiots demand more government control. SMH.

Capitalism can't exist without corporations.
Corporations don't exist with out government.
How and when did capitalism ever exist without the state?

http://www.socialistappeal.org/hist...ony-capitalismq-or-just-plain-capitalism.html

"What many people don’t realize is that capitalism contains within itself a natural tendency towards what these people consider 'crony capitalism.'

"The natural development and progression of capitalism always results in collusion between the capitalist state and capitalist enterprises generally.

"The ruling class in a bourgeois democracy consists of a dynamic entanglement of politicians and business owners or executives.

"One of the contradictions of capitalism is that, at the end of the day, the capitalists themselves never play by the 'rules' that capitalism supposedly operates best under."

 

[connieb]

Capitalism can't exist without corporations.
Corporations don't exist with out government.
How and when did capitalism ever exist without the state?

http://www.socialistappeal.org/hist...ony-capitalismq-or-just-plain-capitalism.html

"What many people don’t realize is that capitalism contains within itself a natural tendency towards what these people consider 'crony capitalism.'

"The natural development and progression of capitalism always results in collusion between the capitalist state and capitalist enterprises generally.

"The ruling class in a bourgeois democracy consists of a dynamic entanglement of politicians and business owners or executives.

"One of the contradictions of capitalism is that, at the end of the day, the capitalists themselves never play by the 'rules' that capitalism supposedly operates best under."

Capitalism can exist in any group that creates and agrees upon the rules. The state demands control but it is not required. Capitalism is the root of free commerce.

 

[georgephillip]

Capitalism can exist in any group that creates and agrees upon the rules. The state demands control but it is not required. Capitalism is the root of free commerce.

What enforces the rules?

https://okusiassociates.com/garydean/works/origins-and-development-of-capitalism.html

"Marx identified the 16th and 17th centuries as being periods of intense capital accumulation as a direct consequence of the discovery, colonisation and exploitation of the Americas, and the development of maritime trade with the East Indies and China.

"Thus began a process in the development of commercial capitalism, in contrast to the feudal capitalism that preceded it.

"So also began the rise of a new class within medieval European society, that is, the capitalist class, or as Marx liked to call them, the bourgeoisie."