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Le baril de pétrole a dépassé le seuil des 40 dollars pendant l'été, et s'approche aujourd'hui des 55 dollars. On est encore loin des records atteints pendant la révolution iranienne de 1979, et on s'attend à une baisse et à une stabilisation autour de 45 dollars. Pourtant, cette flambée a poussé les prévisionnistes à modérer leurs hypothèses de croissance.

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A group of leading grain producers from across Australia has returned from a knowledge tour of America’s Midwest, visiting some of that country’s largest-scale farming operations on a fact-finding mission to learn from their US counterparts.
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The Raglan Suite is passionate about giving you back your smile and restoring your confidence. This is the journey of one of our patients, Linda, whose life has been transformed by dental implants.

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Rainforest Alliance Cupping for Quality

Date: March 29-31, 2017
Location: Atlanta, GA

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Cupping for Quality in Houston, Texas in March, 2016.

Cuppings take place twice each year according to various coffee harvest cycles - once during the springtime, and once in December to evaluate coffees from origins worldwide.

Since 2003, the Rainforest Alliance has organized coffee cuppings to create an opportunity for Rainforest Alliance Certified™ coffees to undergo systematic evaluation by a group of industry experts. The goal of the Rainforest Alliance Cupping for Quality is to show the link between best social, ecological and economic sustainability practices and quality in the cup. By bringing together a diverse group of qualified cuppers in the international coffee community, this program helps to build a bridge between those who grow coffee on Rainforest Alliance Certified™ farms and the roaster and importer communities.

The official results of the Rainforest Alliance Cuppings are publicized in key trade publications and media outlets and shared with coffee buyers around the world. The participating producers are recognized each year at the Rainforest Alliance Sustainable Coffee Breakfast, which takes place at the Specialty Coffee Association of America's (SCAA) annual tradeshow and symposium.

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Participation in the Rainforest Alliance cupping is reserved for farms that are in compliance with the Sustainable Agriculture Network Standard and have a current farm certificate. Participants can submit a maximum of one sample for each certificate holder.

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Communities in Uganda Plant Trees to Curb Climate Change

Ugandan farm landscape

Southwestern Uganda's rural Bushenyi District features a pastoral patchwork of banana, corn, coffee, sugarcane and sweet potato plants. Missing, however, is much of the tropical vegetation that once provided habitat for local wildlife.

Reforestation in Uganda

Thanks to a project developed by The Environmental Conservation Trust of Uganda (ECOTRUST) and validated by the Rainforest Alliance, native vegetation is gradually returning to the region. This vegetation not only provides habitat for wildlife, but helps to absorb carbon gasses that lead to climate change.

Trees for Global Benefit project in Uganda

Over its 20-year lifetime, the Trees for Global Benefit project is expected to sequester more than 50,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2), providing significant economic and environmental benefits to the smallholder farmer community, local wildlife and ecosystems.

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In an area once dedicated almost exclusively to subsistence farming, the 138 farmers participating in the project have begun planting native and naturalized trees on their land. In addition to sequestering carbon dioxide, the trees are helping to curb soil erosion and keep waterways free from siltation.

Accounting as part of a carbon project in Uganda

Participating farmers are organized and evaluated according to a standard called Plan Vivo, which is designed to encourage farmers in developing countries to manage their lands responsibly by paying them for the ecosystem services their farms provide.

ECOTRUST farmers in Uganda

Farmers are paid by ECOTRUST based on their progress toward individual goals, including the percentage of trees they have planted. [Here, project participants and a local auditor are checking the growth of new plantings.]

Measuring carbon in trees in Uganda

By measuring its diameter and recognizing its species, a farmer can estimate a tree's volume and, therefore, its carbon content. These measurements are crucial to determining the amount of carbon sequestered (or "offset") by a project.

Measuring trees in Uganda

Farmers cannot accurately estimate a tree's carbon sequestration capacity until it's about five years of age.

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Farmers in the region rely on ecosystem service payments -- like those generated from the Trees for Global Benefit project -- to improve their quality of life. Many use the supplementary income to pay for their children's schooling.

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Local communities are intimately involved in the process of establishing and executing forest carbon projects. During the validation of the Trees for Global Benefit project, the Rainforest Alliance and ECOTRUST teams met with local council members to discuss their roles and reasons for participating in the project.

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Carbon forestry projects must be meticulous about accounting for all of their greenhouse gas emissions –- the vehicle emissions from the audit trip, for example, must be included in the total as well as emissions from machines used during tree harvest.

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Saint Valentine’s Day, commonly known as Valentine’s Day, or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is observed on February 14 each year. Today Valentine’s Day is celebrated in many countries around the world, mostly in the West, although it remains a working day in all of them.

St. Valentine’s Day began as a liturgical celebration of one or more early Christian saints named Valentinus. The most popular martyrology associated with Saint Valentine was that he was imprisoned for performing weddings for soldiers who were forbidden to marry, and for ministering to Christians, who were persecuted under the Roman Empire; during his imprisonment, he is said to have healed the daughter of his jailer Asterius and before his execution, according to the legendary account, he wrote, “from your Valentine” as a farewell to her. Today, Saint Valentine’s Day is an official feast day in the Anglican Communion, as well as in the Lutheran Church. The Eastern Orthodox Church also celebrates Saint Valentine’s Day, albeit on July 6th and July 30th, the former date in honor of the Roman presbyter Saint Valentine, and the latter date in honor of Hieromartyr Valentine, the Bishop of Interamna.

The day’s association with romantic love grew in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished. By the 15th century, it had evolved into an occasion in which lovers expressed their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as “valentines”). Valentine’s Day symbols that are used today include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten valentines have given way to mass-produced greeting cards.

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[–]TomothyWTF 0 points1 point  (2 children)

It was probably impounded.

[–]BSismyname[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Just went there and there was just a SUV from way back at the start of the game. This makes me so mad, it was such a badass truck too!

[–]TheAscendedGTAV-PC 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yea the garages are pretty dumb, I don't even bother customizing cars, your planes, helis, boats, and tanks always respawn though

[–]FangedFreakLet's Fuck Cowboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you checked the impound?

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I really wish cars that you last drove stayed where you put them, so you could always go back to where you parked them.

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    OP's problem is not to do with garage saving. It's to do with vehicles you leave in the world despawning.

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    Can you confirm that the same character you put it in the garage with is the character that removed it? That seems to be the big thing Rockstar was going on about with the glitch. If Franklin brings in a car only he can take it out. If Michael takes it out then it disappears or goes back to being unmodded if it's a character's starting car.


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* Flight cancellations aid key revenue measure

* Analyst cuts profit estimates for carriers

March 10 (Reuters) - Delta Air Lines on Monday said it expects a first-quarter profit despite a revenue hit of $90 million, as winter storm cancellations consolidated passengers onto remaining flights.

Delta said the storms hurt pretax profit for the first quarter by about $55 million as it canceled 17,000 flights. The carrier said it now expected operating margin, a measure of income to costs, of 6.5 percent to 7.5 percent for the first quarter, compared with a prior view of 6 percent to 8 percent.

But Delta said the flight cancellations aided unit revenue, which is expected to rise 3 percent to 4 percent in the current quarter, compared with Delta’s prior view of a 2 percent to 4 percent increase. Unit revenue is an important measure of pricing power and how full planes are for airlines.

Cancellations can help unit revenue as more travelers are put on remaining flights.

“All in, we think it’s going to be a very solid first quarter,” Delta president Edward Bastian told a J.P. Morgan investor conference.

JetBlue said at the same conference it had canceled nearly 4,000 flights because of the winter storms, and Southwest Airlines said it halted about 6,500 flights in January and February.

JetBlue forecast its unit revenue would rise 1 percent to 2 percent in the first quarter, while Southwest outlined expected growth of 3 percent.

Cowen & Co airline analyst Helane Becker cut her first quarter profit estimate for Delta to 30 cents a share from 32 cents in a note to clients, citing the updated outlook.

Becker also cut her profit estimate for JetBlue Airways for that period to 6 cents a share from 13 cents.

Flight cancellations tend to add to airline costs during the first quarter, when winter storms hit the hardest.

American Airlines Group said in a statement on Monday it canceled about 28,000 flights in January and February, and while cancellations raised costs and would hurt first-quarter profit it still expects unit revenue to rise about 2 percent to 4 percent in the period.

United Continental Holdings said it halted more than 11,000 flights in February alone. United disclosed late last month that disruption from the storms would hurt its first-quarter unit revenue.

Shares of the major U.S. airlines were mixed, with Delta down 1 percent to $35.02 on Monday and United off 1.4 percent to $47.09.

American was up slightly at $39.03 and JetBlue was up 0.1 percent to $9.05. Southwest shares were up 1 percent to $23.34.

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UPDATE 2-US seeks exemption to EU aviation CO2 plan
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UPDATE 2-US seeks exemption to EU aviation CO2 plan

* U.S. objects to EU carbon plan, seeks to exempt airlines

* EU says won’t back down

(Updates with U.S. quotes, adds background)

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent

OSLO, June 22 (Reuters) - The United States demanded on Wednesday that the European Union exempt U.S. airlines from an EU law widening carbon permits to aviation, hardening a standoff over a scheme due to start in 2012.

After talks in Oslo, the EU insisted it would not back down on its unilateral plan to penalise greenhouse gas emissions from planes taking off and landing in the European Union as part of efforts to slow climate change.

“We clearly stated our strong objections to the EU plans on both legal and policy grounds,” a U.S. administration official told a telephone news conference after talks between EU and U.S. negotiators.

In the strongest public criticism of the EU carbon scheme to date by President Barack Obama’s administration, Washington said U.S. airlines should be exempt from greenhouse gas penalties.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity like all other delegates, said the EU was using “the wrong way to pursue the right objective” of slowing global warming that is predicted to cause more droughts, floods and rising sea levels.

The European Commission said there were no plans to back down, echoing statements by President Jose Manuel Barroso earlier this month. .

“The Commission is ready to consult at any time, but there should be no illusion -- the EU does not intend to withdraw or amend the ... directive. It is established EU law,” an EU official at the meeting told Reuters.

Several U.S. airlines are challenging the EU measure in European courts. Washington said its demands in Oslo focused on an exemption, not to try to get the EU to scrap the scheme.

“The demand we made is that the EU ETS (Emissions Trading Scheme) should not apply to U.S. carriers. We did not talk about how that might be done,” another U.S. official said.

Washington has no plans to match the EU move from Jan. 1, 2012, when the EU will require all airlines flying to Europe to be included in the ETS, a system that forces polluters to buy permits for each tonne of carbon dioxide they emit above a certain cap.

China has also strongly opposed the EU plan, saying it will cost Chinese airlines 800 million yuan ($123 million) in the first year and more than triple that by 2020.

U.S. officials declined to speculate about what might happen on Jan. 1, 2012, if the deadlock is unresolved. The EU has said it will impose fines for non-compliance.

The EU is aiming to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, or by 30 percent if other nations also set tough goals in stalled U.N. negotiations on a U.N. treaty to slow global warming.

Obama wants strong U.S. action to slow climate change but has been unable to persuade the U.S. Senate to pass a law to cut U.S. emissions by 3-4 percent below 1990 levels by 2020.

The officials said Washington was working to cut emissions from aviation, including with a Next Generation Air Transportation System.

Annie Petsonk, of the U.S. Environmental Defense Fund, said the Obama administration had a choice.

“It can stand in the way of the only programme in the world that sets enforceable limits on carbon pollution from aviation, or it can begin to craft a programme that taps the ingenuity of this dynamic sector to cut pollution, lower costs and reduce America’s dependence on imported oil,” she said.

(Reporting by Alister Doyle; Editing by Janet Lawrence)

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PRESS DIGEST-New York Times business news - Jan 22
January 22, 2013 / 7:05 AM / 5 years ago

PRESS DIGEST-New York Times business news - Jan 22

Jan 22 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories on the New York Times business pages. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

* U.S. President Barack Obama ceremonially opened his second term on Monday with an assertive Inaugural Address, arguing that “preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action.” ()

* The Bank of Japan set an ambitious 2 percent inflation target and pledged to ease monetary policy “decisively” by introducing open-ended asset purchases, following intense pressure from the country’s audacious new prime minister, Shinzo Abe. ()

* As Facebook and Twitter become as central to workplace conversation as the company cafeteria, federal regulators are ordering employers to scale back policies that limit what workers can say online. The agency has pushed companies nationwide, including giants like General Motors, Target Corp and Costco, to rewrite their social media rules. ()

* Aerospace represents the latest frontier for China, which is eyeing parts manufacturers, materials producers, leasing businesses, cargo airlines and airport operators. The country now rivals the United States as a market for civilian airliners. And the new leadership named has publicly emphasized long-range missiles and other aerospace programs in its push for military modernization. ()

* Atari’s U.S. unit, Atari Interactive, filed for Chapter 11 protection on Monday as part of an effort to cleave itself from its French parent. ()

* After four months of fierce bidding between two Asian tycoons, a multibillion-dollar battle for control of Fraser & Neave appears to have reached its end. A bidding deadline on Monday evening came and went, meaning the victor will probably be TCC Assets, which is controlled by Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi of Thailand. ()

* The Maloof family has agreed to sell a controlling stake in the Sacramento Kings, one of the NBA’s most troubled and well-traveled franchises, to an investment group led by Christopher Hansen, a hedge fund manager who intends to move the team to Seattle by next season and rename them the SuperSonics. ()

* A report from the International Labor Organization predicted jobless levels to rise to 202 million worldwide this year, and said government budget-balancing was hurting employment. ()

* Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the new president of the group of ministers overseeing the euro, said on Monday he wanted to heal the rift over austerity policies that had bred mistrust between southern and northern nations using the currency. ()

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Malta-based charity group suspends Mediterranean migrant rescues
September 4, 2017 / 4:48 PM / in 2 months

Malta-based charity group suspends Mediterranean migrant rescues

ROME (Reuters) - A Malta-based humanitarian group that has been rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean for three years said on Monday it was suspending operations after months of rising tensions with Italian and Libyan authorities.

FILE PHOTO: Migrants disembark from the Malta-based NGO Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) ship Phoenix after it arrived with migrants and a corpse on board, in Catania on the island of Sicily, Italy, May 6, 2017. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi/ File Photo

The Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) was instead sending its rescue ship, Phoenix, to the Bay of Bengal to take aid to Rohingya Muslims who have fled violence in Myanmar for Bangladesh, co-founder Regina Catrambone told Reuters by telephone.

MOA is the fourth group to stop patrols for migrants trying the deadly Mediterranean crossing in the past month.

Last month, Doctors Without Borders -- or Medecins sans Frontieres -- followed by Save the Children and Germany’s Sea Eye all suspended operations. They said their crews could no longer work safely because of the hostile stance of the Libyan authorities.

That leaves Proactiva Open Arms, Sea Watch and SOS Mediterranee still running rescue operations. On Monday, the Aquarius, operated by SOS Mediterranee with Medecins sans Frontieres medical staff, was the only rescue ship in the Mediterranean.

Catrambone said MOAS does not want to risk having to take migrants back to Libya, where they are locked up for months or even years in overcrowded warehouses with little food, no healthcare and no idea of when they will be freed.

“It’s all too confused right now, and this confusion is not good for those people who pay the price with their lives,” she said.

“We no longer have a definite knowledge that they will be taken to a safe port, and we don’t want to rescue migrants and then be forced to return them to Libya, giving them a false hope.”

Since 2014, MOAS has rescued or assisted 40,000 migrants in the Mediterranean. In August, MOAS for the first time conducted a rescue at the orders of the Libyan Coast Guard, but in that case the migrants were brought to Italy.

Since Libyan strong man Muammar Gaddafi was ousted in 2011, Libya’s Coast Guard vessels have fallen into disrepair, forcing Italy to take over rescue operations off the North African coast. Since 2014, some 600,000 boat migrants have reached Italy.

But Italy and the European Union are training and funding the Libyan Coast Guard, and Rome now has a naval vessel in Tripoli’s port repairing their ships.

Last month, a Libyan Coast Guard vessel intercepted a charity ship and ordered it to sail to Tripoli or risk being fired on -- the latest in a series of tense encounters on the high seas.

Since July, there has been a sharp drop in departures from the Libyan coast, in part because of a shift in strategy of militias that control the region around Sabratha, the main point of departure for migrant boats for the past two years.

Some 15,373 migrants arrived in Italy by boat in July and August, compared with 44,846 in the same period last year.

This year, NGOs have also faced accusations in Sicily that they were colluding with people smugglers, fuelling a political firestorm over Italy’s immigration policy before a national election early next year.

Some 13,000 migrants have died in the central Mediterranean since 2014 trying to make the crossing, including more than 2,200 this year, the International Organization for Migration estimates.

Reporting by Steve Scherer editing by Jeremy Gaunt

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Commentary: Here's what to do with those reviled statues
August 18, 2017 / 6:38 PM / in 3 months

Commentary: Here's what to do with those reviled statues

Statues live. The Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville certainly does. The majority of Americans, including his fellow Republicans, disapprove of Donald Trump’s defense of Confederate monuments and his tardiness in condemning the white supremacists whose protests against a decision to remove the Lee statue led to the violence that killed a woman demonstrating against them.

The statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, August 18, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

White House aides leaked their anguish to the press, Republican politicians explicitly criticized Trump’s stance, military leaders did so implicitly and Trump disbanded two presidential advisory councils after several CEOs quit the groups in protest over his Charlottesville remarks.

Mayors in several cities, including Dallas, Texas, Lexington in Kentucky and Jacksonville in Florida said they were preparing to remove Confederate statues. In Durham, North Carolina, protestors lassoed a century-old statue of a Confederate soldier and pulled it off its plinth; several were later arrested. The mayor of Baltimore, Catherine Pugh, ordered the removal of Confederate monuments in the middle of the night, arguing that “it was in the best interests of my city.” On Friday, Maryland authorities removed the statue of a 19th-century chief justice who wrote a decision in favor of slavery.

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Momentous as the fallout from the Charlottesville rally and battle has been, it’s part of a global trend. Though set in marble or bronze, meant to last and impress through the ages, statues everywhere now show themselves to be porous, forced open to controversy, challenge and the bitterness of collective memory. Some statues are removed in the heat of a moment – as was one of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad as his armed forces collapsed in 2003, and one of KGB founder Felix Dzerzhinsky from outside the organization’s headquarters in Moscow in 1991, as the Soviet Union also collapsed. Others, as now, remained to be held to contemporary, often hostile, account.

South African protestors have been to the fore in this movement. Their “Rhodes must fall” campaign targeting white imperialists and centering on a statue of Cecil John Rhodes on the campus of the University of Cape Town,  succeeded in having the monument removed.

A woman who supports Confederate symbols and monuments is held by her husband (R) as she exchanges words with a counter-protester in front of a statue of General Stonewall Jackson in Charlottesville, Virginia, July 8, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Germany was purged of its Nazi iconography (much had been destroyed by the war’s end by explicit order of the Allied occupiers, who issued an order in May 1946 that “every existing monument, memorial, poster, statue, edifice, street or highway name marker, emblem, tablet or insignia” must be destroyed by 1 January 1947.) Italy was not. Fascist architecture and monuments, including paintings, frescoes and mosaics glorifying Fascism, usually by associating it with classical Rome, remain.

In Mussolini’s birthplace, the small town of Predappio, shops line the main street selling Fascist memorabilia and pamphlets. An ornate underground tomb holds the dictator’s remains; a bust stands in the grounds of a villa where he lived and pro-fascists parade up and down the streets, venerating the tomb. The town’s mayor, Giorgio Frassineti, has raised funds to build a museum spelling out the truths, as against the myths, of Fascism in an attempt to rescue the town’s civility.

Other villains, with more blood on their hands than Lee or Rhodes, still have their places of honor. Statues of Russia’s Joseph Stalin are displayed in a museum in his Georgian birthplace of Gori and elsewhere. In China, a solid gold statue worth some $20 million stands in Chairman Mao’s birthplace of Shaoshan, with hundreds of other less expensive monuments all over China.

In a lower key, London’s many statues of British imperial soldiers and administrators are largely undisturbed. In 2000, left-wing London mayor Ken Livingstone suggested that statues of General Sir Henry Havelock and General Sir Charles Napier be removed from their plinths in Trafalgar Square because he did not know who they were. Both were imperial soldiers. Havelock helped put down the Indian mutiny of 1857, an exercise that cost at least 800,000 their lives; Napier, after suppressing working class uprisings in England, went to what is now Pakistan to suppress local uprisings there. In spite of Livingstone’s remarks, both still stand – as does a statue of Rhodes at his alma mater in Oxford.

The argument for tearing down statues of those now regarded as leaders of imperialist expansion and/or racists is straightforward: they continue to act as reference points for those who view them not with aversion but with admiration. Those who honor them identify themselves with the figures they regard as heroes of history, and gain strength and confidence through the identification.

The competing argument is that to destroy these monuments is to lose part of an understanding of history itself. Yet merely standing as they have for decades, or centuries, is not now enough. Instead, they should be attended by explanation, debate and opposing views, even “opposing monuments.” Stalin, for example, could be confronted by a statue of the great dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn, or the figure of an emaciated survivor of the gulag.

Another option: harnessing technology. The filmmaker David Peter Fox came up with the idea of using mobile phones as a teaching device after taking his children to see a statue of Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen in Copenhagen. The app is activated when in the proximity of the statue to play a recording explaining the background of the memorial. The idea is now spreading to Berlin, London, Helsinki, Chicago and New York.

A phone app will not quell the fallout from Charlottesville. It is a pointer, as well as a compromise. If extended and expanded, it could allow an understanding of why controversial figures were once regarded highly, and give space to the reasons why they are not so seen, by many, now. It is sure to be scorned by activists. But it speaks to reason, and may help to avoid what presently threatens to be an escalation of hate.

About the Author

John Lloyd co-founded the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, where he is senior research fellow. Lloyd has written several books, including “What the Media Are Doing to Our Politics” and "Journalism in an Age of Terror." He is also a contributing editor at the Financial Times and the founder of FT Magazine.

The views expressed in this article are not those of Reuters News.

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Price tag for Nevada’s tax incentives finally revealed

Eighty years ago, the Balance Agriculture with Industry Program was born in Mississippi — it was the first time advertising and incentives were deployed in hopes of enticing industries to relocate.

And since then, “we’ve had this cost-benefit debate in America” about tax incentives, “but we haven’t really known the costs,” said Greg LeRoy, president of the policy group Good Jobs First, a watchdog group promoting accountability in economic incentives offered to companies.

That is, we haven’t known the costs until now.

For the first time ever — because of a new national mandate — the Nevada controller’s office broke down how much tax abatements have reduced the tax revenues of local governments.

The controller’s office released calculations Sept. 27 that outlined how much entities would have had in additional tax revenue if no tax abatements were given to the companies that received them in fiscal year 2017 and had the companies still set up operations in Nevada without them.

The report shows that in fiscal year 2017, tax abatements reduced the tax revenue to Clark County by $4 million and to the Clark County School District by $11.6 million.

No Clark County School District trustees could be reached for comment Wednesday or Thursday.

But Clark County Commissioner Steve Sisolak, who is running for governor, said Thursday that he would need more information to determine whether the benefits of tax abatements are worth the $4 million in lost tax revenue to the county.

“That is a decision that the Legislature and the governor made as it relates to attracting businesses,” Sisolak said.

Clark County Commissioner Chris Giunchigliani, who is also running for governor, said Thursday that she hopes to work “with businesses and legislators to fix these systemic problems.”

“Yerington (which the controller’s report shows lost $12,179 in tax revenue because of economic development tax abatements in fiscal year 2017) needs a new senior center, and I’m told it’s around $30,000. It may seem a small amount, but it’s key to their community. These abatements need to be vetted and make common sense,” she said.

Nevada abatement costs

‘Crony handouts’

Robert Fellner, transparency director at the Nevada Policy Research Institute, said Thursday that the report “confirms just how badly ordinary taxpayers are punished by crony handouts to special interests like Tesla.”

Fellner added that “when governments like CCSD complain of budget shortfalls, it is regular taxpayers who will be forced to make up the difference, not crony capitalists like Tesla.”

When Nevada approved roughly $1.25 billion in tax abatements for Tesla in 2014, it was 14 times larger than any deal Nevada had done before, LeRoy said Wednesday.

“This data is important because it shows how tax revenues flow between different parts of the government.

If you take a bunch of money out of one part of the government, other parts have to make it up if we’re going to treat kids equally and treat other public services equally. That means this is really a state issue as well as a local issue. And now we can really see the connections,” LeRoy said.

(Las Vegas Review-Journal)

A total of 111 companies received tax abatements — or reductions in the amount of taxes that a company will pay over time — in Nevada over the past two fiscal years. Nevada’s Economic Forum — the state’s five fiscal forecasters — estimates tax credit programs are slated to cost Nevada about $180.5 million over the next two fiscal years.

Steve Hill, director of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development, said these tax abatements have helped to increase economic diversification, boost wages and facilitate job creation.

Without Nevada’s partial abatement of sales tax on manufacturing equipment, “we just wouldn’t be competitive in attracting manufacturing companies,” Hill said Wednesday.

There were 48,321 Nevadans employed in manufacturing in 2016, according to the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation. By 2019, the department expects that employment figure to grow by 19.6 percent, to 57,802.

“Those companies also bring tax revenue, both in the portion of the taxes that they pay as well as all of the taxes that come because they are here, because they are employing people — their employees then spend those salaries in the community, and that has an indirect effect that generates tax revenue as well,” Hill said. “That number is substantially higher than the amount of the abatements.”

Forgone tax revenue

Hill said the reduced money to local governments because of tax abatements is “not money that is extracted from any budgets,” adding it’s not like abatements are checks that are written to companies.

“This is the controller’s calculation of the difference between the full tax rate and the amount the company paid.”

But LeRoy disagrees.

“Just because it’s uncollected revenue because we gave a company a tax break doesn’t mean it’s not real spending. It’s real spending just as if we wrote the company a check,” LeRoy said. “It’s all economic development spending, and finally we’re going to start treating tax expenditures just as transparently as other kinds of expenditures.”

Contact Nicole Raz at or 702-380-4512. Follow @JournalistNikki on Twitter.

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