OCCUPY AWARE
Sunday OCT 31st.- 7 arrested for sitting: Raleigh Record
The following companies use prison labor instead of willing job seekers.
TWA - VENTURA CA.
AT&T - TELEMARKETING
EDDIE BAUER - clothes making - Washington state.
QUICK SPITS
Business subsidies should be slashed as a matter of basic priorities. Deficits
continue to accumulate at $150 billion a year, and, unless further cuts are
made, will soon start rising again. Policy-makers need to eliminate every low
priority program, and outlays benefiting some of the largest and most profitable
usinesses in America should be considered the very lowest priority.
continue to accumulate at $150 billion a year, and, unless further cuts are
made, will soon start rising again. Policy-makers need to eliminate every low
priority program, and outlays benefiting some of the largest and most profitable
usinesses in America should be considered the very lowest priority.
The article begins by asking the question: “How would you like to pay only a
quarter of the real estate taxes you owe on your home? And buy everything for the
next 10 years without spending a single penny in sales tax? Keep a chunk of your
paycheck free of income taxes? Have the city in which you live lend you money at
rates cheaper than any bank charges? Then have the same city install free water
and sewer lines to your house, offer you a perpetual discount on utility bills--and
top it all off by landscaping your front yard at no charge?”
The definition of Corporate Welfare, according to a 1998 report published in Time
Magazine:
“Any action by local, state or federal government that gives a corporation or an
entire industry a benefit not offered to others. It can be an outright subsidy, a
grant, real estate, a low-interest loan, or a government service. It can also be a tax
break–a credit, exemption, deferral or deduction, or a tax rate lower than the others