Comments Swan400 has made
Industrial Workforce
The consolidation of the food industry is a result of a cheap workforce, and thus cheap imports. Back when people got paid more for their labor, including the farmers, the food processing facilities were close to both the producers, and the markets. This was because the local farmer had enough income to stay in business, and not sell out their farm to have the land developed into McMansions, and endless Big Box strip malls. Thus there was a large enough local supply to keep a local food processor in business. Today it takes a corporate farm to produce food cheap, and they are often far from the local markets. The food instead is imported into the local from anywhere in the world. Remember that New Jersey was once the Garden State because of the food it grew, and sold to New York.On How food processing got into the hands of a few giant companies posted 2 years, 7 months ago 16 Responses
Regressive Taxation
Hello, I just read the plan, and Livery Vehicles as well as Yellow Taxi's, and Vehicle's with Handicap Placards are exempt from the Passenger Vehicle fees. I do not understand this, as if the purpose is to encourage the use of mass transit, and discourage the polution involved with low occupancy vehicles, then why are the transportation systems of the rich specifically excluded (Livery Vehicles, and long distance Taxi service vs. bus, or subway) from paying anything. This means that even someone driving a low emmision vehicle, pays, while some rich person, whom just flew into New York to do some shopping pays nothing. Also, some rich people have found that they do not need cars in New York, and while part time residents of there they exclusively use Livery vehicles. There cars are outside the city at there country homes in Coneticut, or maybe there vacation homes in Vail, or Palm Beach.On The Gothman Prophecies posted 2 years, 7 months ago 6 Responses