Public-Private Partnership Pays off with $6.5 Million in Earned Income Tax Credits

H&R Block Inc. ^ | August 28, 2006 | H&R Block Inc.

[hedgetrimmer]

Use this thread to investigate the true nature of public-private partnerships.

[hedgetrimmer]

Public-private partnerships are a cornerstone policy for advancing the North American Union.

Look how the government influences so-called 'private' corporations, in their partnerships.

Look how so-called 'private' corporations are guaranteed government subsidies when they act as an agency of the government.

When a company is a 'partner' with the government it can no longer be considered private. When the government acts as though it is a business, instead of a government, it fails to meet its prime directive, which in this country, is to protect individual rights, and PRIVATE property rights.

[VeniVidiVici]

hard-earned income tax refunds

I agree.

My hard-earned income is going into their refund.

[hedgetrimmer]

You posted this:

TxDOT getting the word out on public-private partnership program

The Texas Department of Transportation will hold its second workshop in June on its public-private partnership programing and upcoming project development and financing opportunities

What 'financing opportunities' are constitutional? What does a private company get in return for 'financing' the government? How does the citizen defend his voice in his own government when this type of government 'financing' is used?

[Mygirlsmom]

Those words jumped out for me as well. How does one get a tax REFUND without ever having paid taxes? Income tax gift more like it, only I'm not feeling so benevolent.

[1rudeboy]

That's why it's called a credit, not a refund.

[hedgetrimmer]

The earned income tax credit is not a "tax cut" it is a "welfare payment" designed to buy votes.

PeteB570, I found your quote to be quite appropriate for this post. It also illustrates how a public-private partnership is being used to promote a corrupt public official and his agenda. In fact public-private partnerships breed corruption in our government.

[Marius3188]

Hedge

This is the tip of the iceberg.

Meet the Prairie Falcon Parkway Express:
http://denver.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2006/08/28/daily8.html

From the article:
Also in compliance with the new laws, the company doesn't have eminent domain power to condemn land for the project. Land can be condemned only through a public-private partnership with the Colorado Department of Transportation, Hopfer said.

"This is a project that will be done with willing sellers and local government," he said.

Scary, very scary stuff.

[hedgetrimmer]

Public-private partnership (PPP) initiatives for Chile's roads network will be carried out according to their social and economic benefits, public works minister Eduardo Bitran told BNamericas.

Here is another instance, in Chile, how the government will use 'private' business to enforce a 'social agenda'. One of the most fearsome powers of a government is the power to socially engineer its people. That is what our US Constitution sought to protects us from and that Constitution and public-private partnerships do an end-run around our Constitution and our rights as citizens.

[hedgetrimmer]

Yes indeed.

[hedgetrimmer]

Another interesting aspect of PPP, is that it is a global phenomena. Now, why is this? Why are so many nations setting these agreements up, whether they are communist, totalitarian, or purportedly free countries? How can the same program apply no matter what the political ideology of the nation? Why is it that Clinton's disaster management plan with H&R block is so similar to one set up by the Philippine government?

Public-private partnership for health and disaster management

Here is how the partnership operates. The Regional Health Office of Region 8 provides physical space, assigns Center staff, and provides annual maintenance and operating expenses. The Health Emergency Management unit of the Department of Health provides additional learning resources, monitors and evaluates the project; the UNESCO National Commission of the Philippines provides resources for IT equipment and facilities, training on e-center management; and additional learning resources. The Commission on Information and Communications Technology provides IT specialists for project design and installation of equipment and facilities; and conduct training on CeC management, maintenance, and operations. Some government line agencies and UN agencies will be requested to provide additional learning resources, resource persons, and access to online databases and knowledge banks

[hedgetrimmer]

Here is one you might be interested in...

New EDC Members Needed

Sep 07, 2006 -- New EDC Members Needed As Others Retire From Partnership The Economic Development Commission, a public private partnership that promotes the economic development and that helped create the Housing Advisory Board and the Loudoun Convention & Visitors Association, is seeking business leaders to fill several vacancies. The 27 voting members have varied backgrounds, running the gamut from entertainment law to information technology, and tackle topics including employee housing and broadband. The three-year positions begin in January. Three current members will have completed the maximum of two, three-year terms and will be stepping down: Middleburg Bank CEO and Chairman Joe Boiling, Cardinal Bank Senior Vice President Cheryl Beebe and Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority President Jim Bennett. Letters of interest and resumes are due Sept. 15 to the EDC Nominating Committee, c/o Debra Jenkins, Loudoun County Department of Economic Development, 1 Harrison St., SE, MSC # 63, Leesburg, VA 20175.

Now, in a free country, how can businesses be allowed to make decisions with the government about 'employee housing'? Don't indivdiuals have free say over their own housing in this country? Are these so called business leaders now in charge of the government and our tax money, to build housing for their workers? You know that China does this. Is there a place for this type of political ideology in a free country?

[hedgetrimmer]

'willing sellers '-- this has been a tool of the nature conservancy for some time, rendering a property virtually worthless to the private owner, who then 'willingly' sells it to them. They now are the largest landowners in the nation, next to the federal government, with a property portfolio worth billions accomplished in only a decade or so. They also have a public-private partnership with the government, and an incestuous relationship with the US treasury department.

[Marius3188]

The David Letterman land deals pop into my recent memory.
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=vineyard07&date=20030507&query=nature+conservancy

[hedgetrimmer]

'Workforce housing' is one of the cornerstones of former Housing director, Sunne Wright McPeak and the governor.

Public-private partnerships to build them are a force in eliminating private property ownership and creating a society in which nearly everyone is a charge of the government and business will not longer have to pay sufficient wages to their employees so that they can provide for their own necessities.

Broad-based workforce housing initiatives needed

What's needed, as Bill Ring, in a thoughtful Coconino Voices column Wednesday, has proposed, is a broad public/private partnership on workforce housing that stops the finger-pointing and starts working on solutions. Such an approach suffered a setback last spring when the City Council's proposed charter change on workforce housing came under attack from the business community for being premature and vague. It failed at the polls, although other city initiatives, such as an affordable housing land trust, continue to be implemented.

City officials have regrouped and are now undertaking a housing needs assessment that zeroes in on the types of workers who are suffering the greatest housing shortfall and how to overcome it. It is thought that, in most cases, these are younger, middle-class families who simply cannot save enough fast enough to get into even a starter home. Or, if they have managed to buy a house, they are paying way too much of their income on housing costs, causing the kind of financial stress that can tear families apart.

But a study, it is hoped, will flesh out that profile and identify the barriers at work in this community to bringing housing costs more in line with income. Whatever the results, it will mean, as Ring suggests, a willingness for all sides to listen, then be ready to compromise as well as try new ideas, even if not all of them work

[hedgetrimmer]

No suprise that Goldman Sachs executives were also advantaged by that deal.

[hedgetrimmer]

The arguably worst communist government in the world, Zimbabwe, uses public-private partnerships to fund 'public servant housing'. How can a 'free country' like the USA and a communist country like Zimbabwe have the same policies for housing 'workers'?

THE Zimbabwean government has for the first time floated a housing bill that is aimed at financing the construction of houses for the public servants.

This is being done in collaboration with the private sector through a Public Private Partnership.

Together they have established the Public Servants Housing Development Company (PSHDC), a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), to mobilise the appropriate financial and technical resources for the development of houses for public servants.

The company floated a Z$500 million housing bill on September 4 2006.

[Marius3188]

Another huge sham is Conservation Easements.

They lure farmers and hunting clubs into signing these for tax purposes and it prevents them from developing their land and allows other Enviro wackos to sue the land owners.

http://prfamerica.org/LandTrustsThreatenPP.html
http://prfamerica.org/ConsEaseSecondLook.html

[Mygirlsmom]

That's why it's called a credit, not a refund.

From the article:

one groundbreaking public-private partnership has emerged as a success story in helping thousands of Americans claim millions of dollars in much-needed, hard-earned income tax refunds.

This was the statement I was commenting on. Call it what you want, but my point is don't call it a hard-earned refund.

[hedgetrimmer]

This post sums up public/private fascism quite well.

Speaking of 'Nuts': Agenda 21, in a nutshell