Posts Tagged ‘Brett Mandel’
Curtis Jones On Business Tax Reform: “It’s A Wild-Ass Guess”
After seven hours of testimony from a lot of smart, important-sounding people, the city is no closer to reaching a consensus about the efficacy of a business tax reform plan currently before Council. Curtis Jones summed up the whole debate pretty succinctly: “A lot of this is the WAG theory,” the councilman said. “It’s a wild-ass guess.” The...
Continue ReadingReforming Government Is Trickier Than We Care to Believe
For this week’s PW list extravaganza we talked to Councilman Bill Green, Deputy City Controller Harvey Rice and former Controller candidate Brett Mandel about some ways to save money and eliminate waste in the city budget. They had lots of ideas, like paperless government, eliminating row offices, doing a better job collecting owed money and more. However,...
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