Adam Smith Enterprise Award

THE PEPPER FOUNTAIN

The Miami city commission is considering a novel scheme to help defray the operating costs of the city's new Claude and Mildred Pepper Fountain. A machine to be located nearby may charge citizens a rate of $21 an hour to turn on the pump. And, yes, it will accept credit cards.

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