-Caveat Lector- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > CauseNET > The Common Cause Email Alert Network > http://www.commoncause.org > Tuesday, September 7, 1999 > > PAYING TO PLAY: How Masters of Washington's Big Money Game > Won in the 1999 Tax Bill > > The latest report from the Common Cause Corporate Welfare Project > is now available on-line at: > > http://commoncause.org/publications/ptp/ > > The report exposes nine special corporate tax benefits in the new > tax bill passed by Congress. The nine favors carry a hefty price > tag of nearly $60 billion in lost tax revenue in the next 10 years. > > While President Clinton is expected to veto the $792 billion tax > bill passed by the House and Senate this summer, many of the special > tax breaks and benefits are expected to live on in whatever tax > legislation is signed into law. > > Our report, "Paying To Play: How Masters of Washington's Big Money > Game Won in the 1999 Tax Bill," shows how some of Washington's > biggest contributors of soft money - the unregulated and unlimited > contributions to the political parties - also are the biggest > beneficiaries in the tax bill. > > These interests are likely to be jockeying furiously to save their > special benefits as soon as Congress reconvenes after Labor Day. > That activity will come at the same time that both the House and > Senate will be considering bipartisan campaign finance reform that > would ban soft money. The House is expected to begin debate of soft > money ban legislation during the week of September 13 and the Senate > is scheduled to follow in October. > > For details on the full "Paying to Play" report see: > http://commoncause.org/publications/ptp/ > > CauseNET > The Common Cause Email Alert Network > http://www.commoncause.org > Tuesday, September 7, 1999 > CauseNET is the Email Alert Network of Common Cause, a > nationwide, nonprofit, and nonpartisan citizens� lobbying > organization working for open, honest, and accountable > government at the federal, state, and local levels. > > You are subscribed to CauseNET as: [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > If you wish to unsubscribe, FORWARD this message > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] DO NOT reply to this message. > > To change your CauseNET address, follow the unsubscribe > instructions above, and re-enroll online at: > http://www.commoncause.org/causenet DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
