[Peace-discuss] Today's letter to News-Gazette

[Stuart Levy]

David, what an excellent letter.   Thank you for exposing class warfare
so clearly.

And, glad you included the final sentence.   This isn't a matter of
party A vs. party B.

On 01/26/2018 04:12 PM, David Green via Peace-discuss wrote:
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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%.
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> 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.
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> Road to ruin
> <http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/2018-01-21/road-ruin.html>
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>     Road to ruin
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> Population shifts within the United States — who moves where and why —
> speaks volumes about how well the 50 stat...
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> <http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/2018-01-21/road-ruin.html>
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