THE MICHIGAN CITIZEN SEPTE BER 7 - 13,1986
Standing in a wake-
the tax bill cometh
DID YOU K OW . . . that
of the over 53,000 chemicals
in wide commercial u only
about one in seven has actually
been tested for potential health
. hazards. According to the
ational Research Council, only
19% of food dditives and only
16% of cosmetic ingredient
have been a ssed for poten
tial health hazard .
DID YOU 0 ... that
you can receive a free invest
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for Blacks by calling t Is num
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ddre 1451.
My body is a tom mattress
Disheveled throbbing place
For the comings and goings
Of lovele transient ...
Before completely objective
mirrors
I have ot myself with my
eyes.
But death refuses my od
vances.. .
Bo Kaufman, 1921-86
By Ch E. Be
WPA Business Editor
Lament in the languishing
100 of the Blac American
people prorni no hope, but
neither does the Pre ident,
Senator or Hou tax bill pro
posals. Poor people's problems
are not a priority concern of
the current configurations in
Con e. Come fall the final
draft of "disillu . on on paper"
for the wor ing and middle
cl of America will be pre-
er, innocent
or evil esi dent to ink. In
no part of the President's
distorted dream of a tax pro
posal . bill is there a plan to
deere the number of home-
Ie joble or n edy. It i
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the e nce ot the President'
ideol to in 1 te the rich
from sharing with t
The main ide
dent's tax bill nd i to
reduce the amount of govern
ment as 'stance from an ex
tremely wealthy cl to any
other class - wor ing or not.
The tax brackets under dis
cussion for the wor er versus
the wealthy reflect this in
sidious inci ion into the heart
of the working class. The
aver e working class household
with under 30,000 per year
income will be in at le the
minimum tax bracket of 15%,
without its necessity deductions
for housing medical, etc. which
effectively had them in that
same bracket in the past. While
the wealthy, who earn in ex
cess of 100,000 a year will
ttle in at no more than 37%,
or almost half, 50% less than
their contribution to the federal
coffers prior to Ronald Reagan
taking office. Obviously this
arp drop in revenue to the
federal budget is the basis for
the bludgeoning cuts in social
welfare rvice to the sea of
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jobless, homeles people.
Those who have suffered
under Reagan for years like the
15% plus of unemployed Blac
Americans and 41% plus of
Blac American teenagers can
take no comfort in the coming
tax bill. Before the U.S.
economy can turn around it
will have to wait for the extra
money placed into predomi
nately white American male
hands to help get started a
'trickle down effect" of a
roubust u.s. economy. Even
the most optimistic economists
of the U.S. Commerce Depart
ment admit that the Gross
ational Product, dropped to
1.1 % is unacceptable to pro
duce jobs when even a two
percent growth level means a
flat situation with insufficient
steam to create as many jobs
as you normally lose: Lots
of people are banking on a con
sumer spending spree to save
the U.S. economy. It ain't
going to happen under this
tax bill, you read it first here.
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BUSINESS BUILDERS - Ed Rutland, right, Chief Operating Officer,
0- Tox Products, Inc., explains the meting rategie th the
made the minority-owned, Mt. Vernon .Y. and Phoenix, Z. - b d
insecticide finn an effective inner-city jobs providing busine durin
recent diseu . on ith cc W uslim entrepreneurs from around
the nation. Amon hi li ene are, from 1ft,. mold Shirif of Arnold
Jon Son, iami, FI. and Timothy aji of aji, Inc., Detroit i,
o-To product both' Roachbu ters Trap" and R chb te
Po de ' and it provid scientifteaUy designed Inte ted Pest Con
trol an ement Sy em for r . ntial and commercial buildin .
Thi sy em h been pro en effective in d orying roache and other /
in ct well their breeding place. Bob Cottrell photo
F crs 0 BL CK FARMERS RELE SED
W ASHI GTO , DC - The average Blac farmer own
about 100 acres of land compared to a n tional aver of
ne ly 500 acres for the typical white fanner. That was iu t
one of the facts contained in rep rts on the tatus of the
nation s Black farmers. The reports were m de publi by the
U.S. Department of Agriculture and the .S. ivil Right
Commission. It was also revealed that ver 90 p rent of
Blac -operated farm are 1 ated in ju t 16 uthern tate
and Black farmer ar tie likely a white farmer t be
65 year old or older.
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