Last Updated: Feb 27, 2006
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Issue no. 769
Editorial
Editorial: Civil war in Iraq: Made in the USA
Pages 2-3
Mardi Gras amid the corpses in New Orleans
Michigan State: Proposed budget is an empty gesture
Corporations – whining about taxes
Taking workers’ concessions, delivering them to shareholders
Criminal co-conspirators: Oil bosses and the politicians
Maryland state: Utilities – no limit to their greed!
Pages 4-5
Afghanistan: A state on emergency life support . . . and under occupation
Italy: “Rape is less severe . . . when the woman isn’t a virgin” – so say five male judges
Poland: A mother blinded by reactionary religion and the rule of money
United States: Oppose the attempt of a reactionary religious minority to outlaw abortion!
United States: Who could possibly object to a vaccine that would save lives?
Mexican coal mining disaster: Company halts rescue efforts with coal miners trapped inside
Pages 6-7
California prison riots: A result of deteriorating conditions – in prisons and outside
Page 8
Open attacks by former officials multiply against the Bush administration
Corporations
– whining about taxes
Feb 27, 2006
Oakland County Michigan’s politician L. Brooks Patterson is talking about a possible ballot proposal to cut corporate taxes further by completely eliminating the Single Business Tax. As usual, he pretends this will create jobs.
Year after year since the 1990's, Lansing has been cutting taxes for businesses. So what has been happening? Michigan has been losing jobs.
Cutting taxes to the rich and big business does NOT create jobs. It only lines the pockets of the wealthy.