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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Neeka who wrote (334477)12/28/2002 8:20:58 PM
From: American Spirit  Read Replies (2) of 769670
 
Getting the Most out of Homeland Security
by Mark Weisbrot

In a final burst of shameless opportunism for the legislative year 2002, the President and his party pushed their "homeland security" bill through Congress. The bill was laden with PORK and gifts to special interests. Among the most ostentatious was a reward for corporations who found security far from their homeland: those who had set up foreign headquarters (sometimes little more than a mailbox in a tax haven like Bermuda) in order to evade US taxes would be made eligible for government contracts.
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