The Spark

the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist

“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx

Unemployed Need Their Money Back!

Jun 5, 2017

Michigan’s legislators just gave big real estate companies NEW tax breaks. This created a hole in the state budget.

To fill the gap, House and Senate proposals for a new state budget would grab money from a fund made up of fines levied against unemployed workers wrongly accused of fraud.

Legislators treat money wrung from innocent unemployed people as a piggy bank to pay for tax breaks for their rich piggy friends.