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

[Karen Aram]

It is an excellent letter as Stuart notes, and it provides a glimpse of why so many of us, are socialists opposing the one Party system, whether Democrat or Republican.

On Jan 26, 2018, at 19:19, Stuart Levy via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:

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:

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).

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.

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.

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%.

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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