What’s an M/E tax payment, and why doesn’t Asheville city staff tell us what the fair-market rent for the $1-a-month deal is? Wait! Wait! Don’t tell me. It’s ‘cuz they think opportunity costs are pipedreams hallucinated when libertarians mix qualudes and moonshine.

If we can’t stop cronyism, can we stop taxation without representation and shift the burden of corporate welfare to the locals as an explicit, transparent tax? If we believe the garbage we’re fed, this will be stupendous, because the plain folks will see that for every penny they give government, they get $100 back. Trade is a ruse, all commerce is multiplicative. ‘Tleast that’s what I keep hearing.