Re: Democratic Co-creators of Growing Inequalities in America...

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Alas for the CEOs, Clinton raised their taxes, for which they never
forgave them. Bush, however, cut their taxes - thus the shower of
campaign donations.

A few years ago, Ron Blackwelll told the story of meeting with some
Fortune 500 CEOs. He said something like: "I don't get it. Profits
are way up, the stock market is way up, yet you still hate Clinton.
Why?" Their answer: "He raised our taxes."

Doug

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Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:

> *****   Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 09:32:56 -0500
> From: Mark Lause <MLause@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Marxism] Democratic Co-creators of Growing Inequalities in
> America...
>
> The Democratic role in creating a massive black hole in the Middle
> East for resources and lives should not eclipse its importance as the
> "liberal" face of Reaganite greed gone mad.
>
> There was a very revealing episode of Bill Moyer's NOW this past week
> focusing on the rapid growth of vast economic inequalities in the
> United States.  In it, economist Robert Pollin stated, "The average
> corporate executive, even at the end of the George Bush I
> administration, was making a lot more than the average worker. 119
> times more. But by the end of the Clinton administration, so that's
> only over a course of eight years, the average corporate executive is
> making 449 times more than the average worker."
> <http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_rules.html>
>
> This is a tidbit worthy of wider circulation.
>
> All of you CEOs would be well-advised to consider voting for another
> Democratic president.  Anyone considering voting Democratic who is
> not a CEO....
>
> Solidarity!
> Mark L.   *****
> --
> Yoshie
>
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