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About the Arena

2023-01-03 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Economics, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena One comment

Advocates say we need the arena as an engine of economic development. That’s not how economic development works. If you

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The Regressive Nature of Property Taxes

2022-02-06 Rich Wright Economics, Inequality, Taxes 4 comments

Let’s look at wealth. For a working man, or woman, most of their wealth is represented by their homes. Homes

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The Minimum Wage

2022-01-18 elrichiboy Economic Development, Economics, New Mexico, Slider Leave a comment

On January 1, New Mexico’s minimum wage went to $11.50 an hour. That’s right. A minimum wage job in Sunland

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“We Must Not Go Back to Normal”

2021-08-09 elrichiboy Economics, Inequality, Perspectives Leave a comment
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The Subscription Economy

2021-07-07 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Economics, Inequality, Slider, The Economy, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

Here’s a sobering piece I found on Medium.com: For years, banks and ultra-elites (bankrolled by years of money-printing, corporate socialism,

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Insatiable Greed

2021-06-08 elrichiboy Economics, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes 3 comments

Wealth and income inequality is a big problem. Remember Supply Side Economics? From Wikipedia: In 1981, Reagan significantly reduced the

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The People Speak!

  • elrichiboy on Solving the City’s Budget Problem: Let’s Get Rid of the TIRZs
  • Jerry K on Solving the City’s Budget Problem: Let’s Get Rid of the TIRZs
  • Richard Roman on La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez
  • Carmen Rodriguez on Solving the City’s Budget Problem: Let’s Get Rid of the TIRZs
  • Cynthia J Gomez on Higher Border Water Rates, Donut Holes and a Thorny Divorce in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa
  • John G. Dungan on Solving the City’s Budget Problem: Let’s Get Rid of the TIRZs
  • Emillio Benitez on City of Dust: Contreras, New Mexico
  • Gary Cobb on La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez
  • Kent Paterson on Higher Border Water Rates, Donut Holes and a Thorny Divorce in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa
  • Lawrence Feltham on City of Dust: Dunlap, New Mexico

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