Off-budget enterprise
Off-budget enterprises (OBEs, shadow governments, or special districts) are a fast growing type of government in the United States. OBEs use public funds to further private interests. They operate outside the regulations of general-purpose government and public scrutiny. They usually have tax authority and some have the ability to raise revenue bonds. The fastest-growing OBE is the industrial development agency[?] which issues tax-exempt industrial revenue bonds[?] to finance private business ventures.In 1962 there were 18,323 OBEs and in 1998 there were nearly 30,000. OBEs receive about 26% of their funding from the federal government.
Political scientists Robert E. England and David R. Morgan state, "Through OBEs, Detroit is now dominated by business elites."
See also: political science, quasi-autonomous non-government organisation, special-purpose district
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two first far exceeding all manner of expression."
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who having, in the sacrifice of Iphigenia, to represent the sorrow of the
had in the death of this fair innocent virgin, and having, in the other
her father, he drew him with a veil over his face, meaning thereby that
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but he immediately knew him to be his own son, a thing that added a
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--Petrarca, Sonetto 137.]
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