What is really going on here is $69 million burden in fees to "outside services" namely law firms and 500,000 hours in company time the shareholders are going to have to shoulder.
The suit alleges a widespread system of local government abuse that targets primarily black communities, where poor people are routinely imprisoned because they cannot escape from the burden of fees generally associated with petty offenses.
"More and more peasants are submitting petitions concerning the excessive burden [of fees and taxes], and conflicts [between officials and peasants] are becoming increasingly intense," said an unusually frank report on causes of social instability in China published by the Communist Party last year.
It frets about cross-subsidies, saying that the burden of fees for exceeding credit limits falls on the young and the poor, who are in effect padding the accounts of the rich (and, although it does not say so, the careful).
Any burden the fees impose on employees' First Amendment rights is justified by the need to eliminate free riders — workers who enjoy union benefits without having to pay for them, which can deplete the unions' resources in states where they are legally required to represent all workers, members and nonmembers alike.
There are lots of ways to do it without taking on a heavy burden of fees (see table below).
(Our cost formula looks at both one-time sales commissions and the annual burden of fees, overhead and trading commissions).
The sales charge is a one-time commission; the annual expense, the ongoing burden from fees and overhead on a fund's assets.
While uptake has risen over the last few years, these degrees carry the highest cost burdens in fees.
Pandora, which has about 4 percent of the domestic radio-listening market, recorded a loss of $1.8 million last year, burdened by fees paid to music labels to stream songs.
