Say Amen, Someone  “When we avoid using money directly for
public purposes, our money gets used indirectly to subvert
public purposes.” — Tom Matrullo In other words, we can entrust
tax dollars to government (which observes some standards of
marginal transparency and accountability to us), or we can leave
major enterprises to private firms to whom we make payments
anyway, who use our payments without any obligation to disclose
how, how, much, and to whom, and who devote a large proportion
of those payments to advertising (to perusade us to send them
more), and to lobbying our legislators… to allot them some of
our tax payments, for dessert. Between Tom’s attention to
corporate (pseudo-)life and such stories as this scarifying
report on high-speed trading (“major profits for adding no value
whatsoever”), I’m at a loss to explain why 90% of the U.S.
population isn’t up in arms.  This entry was posted in
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Amen, Someone    1. Paul Baxter says:      I fail