Indeed- Those seeking even more disquiet can reflect on the words of Benito Mussolini- "Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is a merger of state and corporate power." Welcome to the New World Order. Practice your goose-step now, and avoid the rush... Lee Einer J wrote: >Phil >Welcome to the great land of beginning to understand how things really are. >Not how we we were taught or would like them to be but how they really are. >The next step is a daily reading of www.lewrockwell.com > >Roger > >---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > >Subject: Government Whore >Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 08:52:56 -0700 >From: "Phil Mattison" >To: > >Here's an example of what a joke the concept of "equal protection under the >law" has become: > >If you pick up a copy of the Internal Revenue Code, you can read the >custom-tailored tax law written for AIG. It states, in part, that this >section of the new tax law will apply to everyone except "any controlled >foreign corporation which on August 16, 1986, was a member of an affiliated >group (as defined in section 1504(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 >without regard to subsection (b)(3) thereof) which had as its common parent >a corporation incorporated in Delaware on July 9, 1967, with executive >offices in New York, New York." AIG was incorporated in Delaware on July 9, >1967, and has its executive offices in New York. That little provision and a >similarly arcane clause written for another big insurer --Cigna-- were worth >an estimated $20 million to the two companies. They would have been obliged >to pay that much in taxes had not a friendly, but anonymous, member of >Congress's tax-writing committees inserted the exemption into law. > >Bartlett & Steele -- America: Who Stole The Dream >-- >Phil Mattison >Ohmikron Corp. >480-722-9595 >602-820-9452 Mobile > >--------------------------------------------------- >PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: >http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > >------------------------------------------------------- >--------------------------------------------------- >PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: >http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >