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David, what an excellent letter. Thank you for exposing class
warfare so clearly.<br>
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And, glad you included the final sentence. This isn't a matter of
party A vs. party B.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/26/2018 04:12 PM, David Green via
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;"><font face="Calibri"
color="#000000" size="3">Regarding “Road to Ruin” (1/21),
the editors—as always—rely
on the Koch Brothers’ (American Legislative Exchange
Council, Illinois Policy
Institute) analysis of yearly Illinois population loss of ¼
of 1% to argue for
lower taxes, decreased environmental and workplace
regulation, and governmental
austerity in all areas that actually help people (which
excludes military
spending).</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;"><font face="Calibri"
color="#000000" size="3">This is part of a national
libertarian-neoliberal agenda to convince
state legislatures to participate in a race to the bottom
characterized by decreased
taxes on the wealthy, increased concentration of wealth,
income stagnation for
at least the bottom 50%, destruction of remaining unions
(especially public
employees), privatization of public education, and
opposition to private insurance-based
Obamacare, which for the Koch Brothers isn’t privatized
enough.</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;"><font face="Calibri"
color="#000000" size="3">Such state-level policies, when
implemented
in a critical mass of states, insure a continuation of the
above trends in all
states, whether they gain or lose population—a trivial
artifact of the brutal
class warfare promoted by the Koch Brothers and the editors
of the
News-Gazette.</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;"><font face="Calibri"
color="#000000" size="3">The federal context of
state-level policy is vital: a privatized healthcare system
that wastes a
trillion dollars or two; a military-industrial complex that
spends another
trillion in an effort to rule the global economy; Wall
Street’s successful legislative
effort to accumulate ½ of national wealth in the hands of
the 1%.</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;"><font face="Calibri"
color="#000000" size="3">Illinois is indeed burdened by a
regressive state/local tax system that is easy prey for
austerity-mongers.
Moreover, both the Koch Brothers-Rauner Republican Party and
the Goldman Sachs-Madigan-Emanuel
Democratic Party are in on the fix.</font></p>
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