Great ASSMOquizzes of the past

"Behind every great fortune there is a crime." -- Honore de Balzac

Date	Quiz Question
December 27th, 2002	What corporation stands to make tens of millions of dollars from Monroe County's newest TIF district?
June 23rd, 2002	What local bird-watching organization is now a member of the Bloomington Economic Development Corporation?
December 7th, 2001	How much did the City Council allocate for a preliminary outlay to study the Mayor's proposal to turn our downtown rail terminal into a park?
November 20th, 2001	The emergency airline bailout cost taxpayers $15 billion. For how many years would that fund Amtrak?
August 3rd, 2001	How much do mortgage tax deductions cost the US Treasury per year? (answer can be found on this website)
July 24th, 2001	According to Public Citizen, how much of the research costs associated with 1995's five top-selling prescription drugs were borne not by the corporations that sold the drugs but by taxpayers?
July 6th, 2001	In what year and month did the NASDAQ index begin its long crash from its 'irrational' high?
July 3rd, 2001	What's the ratio of Mayor Fernandez's economic development assistants who worked to secure corporate welfare for developer Patterson/First Capital's Thomson site to those who eventually went to work for the developer?
June 25th, 2001	In 2001, Herman Associates won $10M in a competitive bond program administered by the IHFA (http://www.state.in.us/ihfa/). What was the ratio of Indiana corporations who applied for those bonds to those who were eventually awarded them?
June 25th, 2001	How much corporate income tax did General Motors pay in 1998 (answer is on this web page under "other data/top 200 economies")
June 18th, 2001	Beer companies claim that 44% of your beer costs go to taxes. What is the actual federal excise tax on beer?
June 17th, 2001	When, and for what reason, was the first income tax imposed?

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updated: May 9 2008 11:20:02 AM