How Doth the Little Crocodile

According to a Lewis Carroll poem, the crocodile always seems ready to catch a fish, not with might, but with cunning. The same could be said of government and its citizens, when government argues by pulling the heartstring and not the brainstem. One such tug is easily identified in the arena of economic development.  Here, state and local officials give tax breaks for big business (cheering for jobs), while ignoring what keeps unemployment down and revenues up in the long run: investment in resources and people. The Monroe Enquirer-Journal (reproduced here) provides Chad Adams‘ version of this deplorable action. Another similar issue, the minimum wage, focuses on helping the poor. Raising the wage of low-skilled workers actually harms them, as Roy Cordato explained to newly inducted economics club members at Wake Tech Community College.  Another idea popular among many local leaders is greenways. The construction of these open spaces is appealing to some, though at the cost of others.  Usually, those that are the most harmed have the least say in these expansions.  In considering their own greenway, Asheboro heard an earful from Michael Sanera in the Courier-Tribune.