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All humanity has left the area': paying for Tesla's Gigafactory
Critics of the system say there is no doubt who ultimately pays.
“It’s the working stiffs,” said Bob Fulkerson, of the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada.
“Corporate welfare is a way of life in these parts,” said Andrew Barbano, a veteran commentator. Ordinary people bore the brunt in the form of regressive sales and gas taxes and impoverished services, he said. “Nevada is addicted to hidden indirect taxes.”
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jul/03/all-humanity-has-left-the-area-the-cities-paying-for-tesla-gigafactory


A Fox Business Network panelist on Thursday said President Trump has been one of his "anonymous sources" over the years, after the president railed against media using anonymous sources during a rally in Montana. 
"Just heard @POTUS at this rally complaining about the use of anonymous sources," Charles Gasparino tweeted. "For the record he was one of mine over the years."
Gasparino's tweet came after Trump used anonymous reporting as a reason to call the news media "fake" and "dishonest."
"They never use names anymore," Trump said.
http://thehill.com/homenews/395729-fox-business-reporter-trump-rails-against-anonymous-sources-but-was-one-of-mine-over


Succeeding at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) meant keeping your head down, your opinions to yourself and never saying no to the boss, according to three former staffers who worked under Administrator Scott Pruitt.
They described working conditions under Pruitt, who announced his resignation Thursday, as equally tense and thankless and blamed the EPA chief for creating a culture of fear that often pitted employees against one another and left some workers — many under the age of 30 — feeling as if they couldn’t say no to the administrator.
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/395714-former-aides-describe-culture-of-fear-under-pruitt


Mexico moved forward Thursday with its second round of retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods, according to a Politico report.
Most of the latest tariffs will be applied to U.S. agricultural products, including apples, cranberries, cheeses, potatoes, pork and whiskey. The products will be hit with a tariff of between 15 and 25 percent, Politico reported.
Those penalties will complete the roughly $3 billion worth of retaliatory tariffs Mexico implemented in response to steel and aluminum duties the Trump administration announced earlier this year.
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/395639-mexico-implements-retaliatory-tariffs-us-agricultural-products