Let’s slip into our Louis Vuitton shoes and take a gilded stroll through Manhattan. We begin downtown, where Goldman Sachs, that exemplar of 0.001 percent America, reaps a multimillion-dollar tax break for its office tower, a deal accompanied by a multimillion-dollar landscaping clause. (You expectedLloyd C. Blankfein to yank weeds, maybe?)
WASHINGTON — Like manna from heaven, thousands of dollars in new revenue is raining on a group of congregations here from the unlikeliest of sources: the utility bill.