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The unrelenting corporate welfare lobby. (The Taxonomist).(Brief Article)

American Prospect, The,  May, 2002  by McIntyre, Robert S.

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IT'S NOT OFTEN THAT I AGREE WITH REP. BILL THOMAS, THE Republican Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. But we're in complete agreement that--contrary to what you may have read in the papers--the so-called stimulus bill Congress enacted in March showers money on corporations while offering only crumbs to unemployed workers.

At the end of last year, it seemed that Senate Democrats had stymied efforts by the Bush administration and congressional Republicans to use the economic slowdown as an excuse to pass more regressive tax cuts, this time mostly for big business. ...

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