Minority Contracting - The Scandal that DOGE Has Not Addressed

[RoshawnMarkwees]

In a parallel scam, I suggested to a friend,who owns a successful business with a business partner, that the two get married with suitable pre-nups that leave neither with any burdensome obligations should they dissolve the business and divorce. They could utilize marriage tax breaks and both could claim the one’s Florida address as primary and save money on income tax.
It’s not as though the government makes them strip and perform homo acts in order to qualify for their homo marriage.

 

[justoffal]

The Scandal of Minority Contracting

Race-based contracting regimes threaten core American values, writes Judge Glock

blog.joelonsdale.com

Minority and WBE Contracting are bullshit programs that have been going on for many decades. Top-down mandates to procurement agencies and departments demand that a certain percentage of project subcontracts go to companies that are owned and controlled by Blacks, women, and other POC's or persecuted demographics. The intention - always altruistic - has been to foster the growth of such companies to promote [I gag at the words] "Social Justice."

But those companies generally do not exist. How could they?

So what happens is some "evil, rich, White" people find a token POC or woman who can create a company, be its President, bid and get the subcontracts, then somehow flow down the actual work and money back to the White people who are actually in charge. Some of the scams are so transparent that they are laughable, and more often than not the President ends up become quite wealthy - at least for a time - and happy as the proverbial clam.

This is not just a Federal problem. In fact it is worse at the State and local levels.

And it is huge. All American tax payers should be aware of this phenomenon, and pushing their elected representatives to kill these POC and women owned business subcontracting mandates. The paltry number of successful, legitimate businesses that have been created and survived is a national disgrace.

That's Pritzker's game.

 

[Concerned American]

The Scandal of Minority Contracting

Race-based contracting regimes threaten core American values, writes Judge Glock

blog.joelonsdale.com

Minority and WBE Contracting are bullshit programs that have been going on for many decades. Top-down mandates to procurement agencies and departments demand that a certain percentage of project subcontracts go to companies that are owned and controlled by Blacks, women, and other POC's or persecuted demographics. The intention - always altruistic - has been to foster the growth of such companies to promote [I gag at the words] "Social Justice."

But those companies generally do not exist. How could they?

So what happens is some "evil, rich, White" people find a token POC or woman who can create a company, be its President, bid and get the subcontracts, then somehow flow down the actual work and money back to the White people who are actually in charge. Some of the scams are so transparent that they are laughable, and more often than not the President ends up become quite wealthy - at least for a time - and happy as the proverbial clam.

This is not just a Federal problem. In fact it is worse at the State and local levels.

And it is huge. All American tax payers should be aware of this phenomenon, and pushing their elected representatives to kill these POC and women owned business subcontracting mandates. The paltry number of successful, legitimate businesses that have been created and survived is a national disgrace.

I'd take it one further and do away with union/prevailing wage mandates as well.