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December 08, 2007
At the Center for Policy Alternatives Summit on the States
My colleague Phineas Baxandall, our tax and budget expert, and I are speaking this weekend at the national Center for Policy Alternatives Summit on the States conference (agenda). State legislators and other organizations concerned with better public policies will be attending. I speak today Saturday at a panel on fighting back against unfair bank interchange fees. Everyone, whether they pay with cash or plastic, pays more at the store or more at the pump due to the anti-competitive fees that the credit card networks and banks sock to merchants.Phineas speaks Sunday on Stopping the Privatization of Public Assets & Services. Here's our campaign page on Bad Road Privatization. Excerpt: Elected officials in Indiana and Chicago recently sold off public roads to private toll-road companies. Tempted by short-term cash, these governments relinquished public control over the management and planning of transportation networks and failed to receive fair value for these assets.
Posted by Ed Mierzwinski at December 8, 2007 10:22 AM
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