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Show I 7' 4 Thursday July 13. 2000 Guest coin din Shares profit unemployment relationship By WILLIAM COLLINS dards is how much leverage they have with their V : folks making over $319,000 per year, mostly from reducing the estate tax. .'.;,; And just to show where congressional priorities lie, estate tax repeal took flight once again this year on its own, but the increase in the minimum wage 'employers.'- :. :'..' Clearly, most Americans don't have much leverage. Otherwise living standards would have Jong been i( Mostly the press tends to keep us misinformed booming, in sync with the economy, corporate profabout the economy, but rambunctious truth does ocits and productivity. But for most people, that hasn't casionally slip out Hardest to hide is the passioh- -' '::"' A: ate Relationship between corporate profits and un- '.happened.:.:trie shown have in last ;'. couple years wages Only employment r 'y v.: H any real movement and that's because workers have My favorite headline appeared In March; It read, .; finally become scarceT Prior to that owners had been 'Unemployment increases slightly; stocks sky; squirreling up all those productivity gains for flienV rocketBeypnd the Beltway : ; . 7, ':V':: ; .v.;:.v this hemisphere's banana republics gradually be- -: coming more like us, we are becoming more like -' them. Wealth, has come to dominate botii the Congress and the White House, just as it floes in Guatemala. Here are some eiamplei i ; . Corporate taxes have beet) falliruj for 20 years. . selves.: In an earlier era we might have termed such. amazing profits "an embarrassment of riches." Not now. Wealth no longer seems capable of embarrass- -I ; ' J ment; v::;' y'A ; For exa niple, the Republicans iii the United States Congress are currently trying to repeal the estate tax.; More than any other levy; this one does fall upon the ' rich, though only after they die., V ; ; V Aside from raising revenue to run the government, the estate tax does slightly hamper the passing of .fortunes from one generation to the next And if the repeal succeeds, of course thai lost revenue will, ona way or another, haveTo be made up by you and me. An intriguing example of the politics of this' issue :v wailast year's failed attempt at a minimum wage' increase. Under the GOP plan, workers would have : ; t,y'-Afor stocks. '. But because the average worker has a lot more invested in nis job than he does in the market higher unemployment for him is riot quite so thrilling,.: .; ' Adding to our misinformation is the media's new J : usafe of the old tennr "prdductiyify." . The Internal Revenue Service rarely pesters trie rich anymore, focusing these days oh the middle class. V . means certain how long it takes a worker to produce amount of stuff. Iii the press, however, the word's meaning has grown deceptive; :A ;. Robotic reporters at Associated Press favor the ' rendering: "Productivityis the key factor that determines how fast Americans' living standards can ; -rise.", ;:v-:-::A-V: not The are only wrong, but Baloney.: reporters , In common parlance, productivity simply i . Guest cd I J' :: ar . . mo-nop- ; unforturwte The key factor in raising Americans' living stan : fewer and fewer families are covered by health insurance. V'j tApj- '' Blue-colljobs are flooding overseas; ' More and more industries are falling under V. cttijbiM-- : ; A permanent underclass is iapidly growing to ensnare not just the usual farm workers, but also janitors, child care workers, hotel workers, health aides, : watehmen, hamburger, Rippers, telemarketers, and ' countless other toilers. With 46 million Americans now making (ess than' $10 per how; we have become, like bur southern neighbors; a land of haves and have-not- s: ; It's hardly a system many nations would adopt ' :: by referendum.:' ';;;- AyP . benefited by $11 billion over 10 years. But tax cuts piggybacked onto the bill would have benefited others by $128 billion. Not surprisingly, 73 percent would nave gone to ' . . . :. Scanty, one awful truth has materialized from this economic frenzy. We can now see that instead of . Tr implication the headline was, rightly, that higher unemployment holds down wages, which in turn increases profits; Such news makes Wall Street jubilant since investors are then willing to pay more stayed buried.; : ii m n , I ui v ByHAMLASSILA TheTideiCeriter;:';;. preference first i . re Last March, the United States Department of for -; farmstand federal new a organic proposed Arl-tuttu- ' Inf. '; : A or, j mid-Jun- . ' As things stand, there is no national definition ,of or--: fanic food Whether or not what's inside the package deserves a label on the outside that says "organic" is ries to be labeled "organic. vv T . . y' . ' ,: . ' . Then, in ... ';(;.-;::-;- : v;i:-- SS ;' V0- - ' v;. : - ' Sex : -v P v . V' ;;;: '; "a2 I ,y I : it I MbtorVehidei,- - yCr'-:- : - . Hair 0' VVV' .P - Business; m -- ' ; Make--:";;?:--'- .... . - .; .. License. Associates of Dealer. I I I : furthermcithou :.::)P HighirWd.seeds, municipal sewage bought cheap in large quantities, and irradiation are the'Hunds of shortcuts that streamline terms, overriding khosyncrasies of climate and place. : ;':. : on the questions of genetically modified foods, sewage V sludge, and irradiation, it is not yet strong enotigh. And industry is pushing the USDA toweakeh itfurther. . Emnronrnentalists and organic farmers have dubbed these issiiesthe big three." Reuse of human sewage as' fertilizer is sound environmental practice if done right; but in reality, much sewage is now contaminated wiuY ,' dangerous iwlustriai toxins. ., Asforbioengineenngfood and irradiation, neithertias been shown to harm human health. But many environ. merrtalists fear that as. termers around the world turn P . :' insects.; ; , ; ... 'W-:v7r- QiVE UP ' P:PP .'.';: ; ; No question, . ' I If yes, then now: by mail or by phone HECK, '"'' When' tural knowledge that we may one day desperately need. More than that, it was smaR farmers who founded the organic farming movement Farmers should not be shoved aside now that Irtanstol Code nanie you wish to be known by ;' NO May we contact yoii? YES : SrnaDfarmsareatriyofnomegrownagri agribusiness has gotten List any other suspected illegal activities: : agribusiness is providing Ihem.. ;::.::-:y- y Drug(s) being dealt Amount' the world needs food in bulk. But the wipnldalsoneedbfaimsthatwilte tainable over the long haul and it is. not clear that ';' . tests showing that pol '; . m . by Cornell UnwersBy laboratory I . of (lealing ; . . Location . Tre seeornakeite out paying as much attention to, for example, the long-terfertility of the soil or the historical cycles of local of dealing: Method J .v.''.'; "P Ifweniaycoryoubyinaitwhatttyo J Mail completed forma to: 1 'CITI1 y'"' 'P ' I I v'r.v,;;.- - ";- y-'V--:- Eves" I I ' ; Cell. . to the new superfoods, valuable traditional varieties wdl be lost forever. They are also deeply troubled about the; release of genebcally rnbdified organisms into the envi- ronmertwffli scart testing (at a decision, me Union of Concerned Scieii- -; is the first time the USDA has put con- -indicates tists . ' V : Address;: ; : . J . . ; beWpnpjmc.V:v Each of the USDA decisions was highly unpopular .with organic farmers, environmentalists and other citi- zens, and thaagency received a stunning 275,000 let- v tors in opposition. I ; ; : basicalty left up tp tne marketer ; Now that consumer demand is strong, and organic food has moved but of its specialty niche and can be found on the shelves of major chain supennarkets, this state of affairs only invites abuse. V : ; : : USDA's first proposal, published in December 1997. met with a hailstorm of criticism. The federal agency . had overruled its own advisory (ardbyrefusirftoex , dude gsheticalty modified foods. It had also left open the possibility that food irradiated to kil microbes, as wed as food fertilized with sewage sludEe, could be la-- ; V: I 'Age ; ' A FUaHKR " '."' Iescripdon: Ht v ; y-y-p---- yP .oyingneed. Nttkname: . A-?'. ; e, In me pubBc comment period wfleno Now is the time for consumers to weigh in on rules that are, - for the most part wed crafted-an- d for which there is a . ': . . lfy Naine of suspect droit dealer J 'sumer preference above the wishes of its !1raditional len from one popular kind of geneticajly modified can cciistitu-iaigefo'"'. producers and agribusiness," the ,lufl.mbnarch caterpOlarsJ of worked raises for its the Irradiation, itself.;. problems reversed. part 'agency the hew proposal does an excellent job of keeping: safety and disposal of radioactive waste. Moreover, it pesticides out of organic terming, ft also prohibits the ; discourages farmers and processdrs from producing ".'v dean fobd.ta dean operations:; use'of antibiotics, honriones, aw animal parts in : Whysperamoneyaitfliietokeepmeatfreeof ganic animal feed. And ft creates a detailed, reliable la- ; beting system, kiduding strict requirements for a 100 ;temination if it will be zapped before bemgsokl, regard- less? . :. percent organic" ' But the proposal does riot yet offer enough financial ; : At tieart'the debate over the Trvee is 4 debate : over the nature of organic farming. Each of these prac-- ' support for small termers, many of whom will have ; ticesterKktofurther includes It cost of certhlcatiort. also trouble meeting the agricultural mass production, which allow what we think of factor could b arithMcalto giant poultry and hog loopholes that TURN Infonnation gathered result erf the TIPS form remains stricdy. confidential. 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