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To: Dale Baker who wrote (13240)	2/24/2006 3:40:43 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 541915

Since some towns are essentially company towns, and the tax incentives some corporations squeeze out of desperate cities are truly amazing. we'll just have to disagree on how much responsibility they bear. I don't want to hold them responsible for everything- but at the moment they are responsible for very little. I want the balance tipped- you are imagining my position to be more extreme than it is. I'm not sure why. I just want to see corporations paying something closer to the true cost of doing business.

To: Dale Baker who wrote (13240)	2/24/2006 3:47:04 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541915

BTW- I read a very interesting article WRT how unemployment is counted. I'll try to find it. The thrust was that the US method of counting is dodgy- and the EU unemployment figures are much more true to life, than our figures are. I'll try to rustle the article up. Seems to me I remember reading the US unemployment would be around 10% if it were calculated the way the German numbers are- and that would make it close to Germany's number. thinkandask.com there's one citation of the problem I mean if the US unemployment rate IS incorrect, and this article is right about how far it is off, then France and the US have very similar rates, and France still manages to protect workers better. JMO On all other metrics the EU does better in terms of disparity measures (between rich and poor)- if you recall I posted an extensive article on that.