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To: JDN who wrote (124784)7/12/2005 1:32:02 PM
From: Neeka  Read Replies (1) of 793966
 
Interesting heading, don't you think?

The fight starts here, with corporate welfare

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's editorial writers gird for battle to protect their ferry subsidies: "Gas Tax Repeal: The fight starts here". Among the P-I's unconvincing arguments in favor of the gas tax is this one:

[Business and orgainized labor] both argue that the higher tax will buy important transportation improvements throughout the state.
Organized labor is of course less interested in "transportation improvements" than it is interested in increasing the number of dues paying Davis-Bacon workers. And "business" support? A quick peak at the list of donors to the shameless lying weasels at the "Keep Washington Rolling" campaign tells us who these businesses are. Most of them are beneficiaries of the massive corporate welfare program which is the 2005 transportation package, e.g. --

ACEC Washington, the state chapter of the American Council of Engineering Companies, AGC of Washington, Associated General Contractors, the Washington Asphalt Pavement Association, the Land Surveyors’ Association of Washington and Foster, Pepper and Shefelman, which would do the legal work on the construction contracts and bond financings.

And then there's Boeing, whose corporate motto is "only the little people pay taxes".

One corporate patron of the Keep Washington Rolling campaign whose in-kind contribution of editorial space is not listed at the PDC is the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, as its corporate motto is "only the little people comply with regulations on political speech"

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