DC crumbles as government spends abroad It has been seven days since a severe storm struck the Washington, DC area; the brief storm uprooted trees which damaged property and cut power for millions of people in the Mid-Atlantic. Still people are left without power and while Americans are dealing with record high temperatures, the US government chooses to spend millions of dollars on upgrading Guantanamo Bay's infrastructure as well as Iraq, literally leaving many Americans in the dark. Liz Wahl brings us more.
DC crumbles as government spends abroadHuge Profits, Tax Subsidies Don't Change Pepco Response After Storm "Heavy storms...knocked out electricity for millions of Americans across the mid-Atlantic, including hundreds of thousands of residents of the District of Columbia. Pepco, the utility corporation that has a monopoly over electric services in the D.C...Pepco is a popular target for discontent in D.C., and for good reason. In the last few years, the company has cut service and maintenance, even while it made millions in profits and paid its executives fat bonuses...Adding insult to injury, according to Citizens for Tax Justice, Pepco has not paid any net federal corporate income tax for the last decade...".
Huge Profits, Tax Subsidies Don't Change Pepco Response After Storm
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