Some Numbers on Solar Power
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008How many years would it take, saving $41/year, to pay for the $1088 purchase price of the solar panel?
Answer: ~26 years
Archive for October, 2008
Celebrity Campaign Contributions
Saturday, October 4th, 2008I am fairly certain that if I owned a fleet of vans that I made a business of renting to the public and I donated them gratis to, say, the McCain campaign to drive their volunteers around that would constitute an in-kind campaign contribution and would be subject to the limits imposed by various campaign finance laws and regulations. If Bill Gates decided to outfit some politician’s campaign offices with Microsoft Word without charging them for it I am sure the same thing would apply. If a sign-maker contributed campaign signs, or the owner of a television station contributed air-time for campaign ads I am sure those would both count as contributions as well.
So why can Springsteen or Streisand contribute what amounts to some tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of concert without tripping over those same regulations?