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Wed, 2009-01-28 12:14 — The Conductor
Topic: 
Economics
Places: 
U.S.A.

Creating jobs by breaking windows is not only bad economics, it’s criminal (except when government does it):

The owner of a glass company accused of a $132,000 scheme to smash Scottsdale school bus windows and profit from the repairs has been indicted.

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Investigators claim Vollberg paid Scott Sloan $5,000 to find a person to knock out the glass, and then paid Mike Olivares $15,000 in April 2007 to break out the front windshields of 70 school buses in a Scottsdale bus yard. Vollberg, whose company was a subcontractor for the school district, charged the district $134,000 to repair the windshields.

H/T: Coyote