Re: Canada, via Barron's

1994-12-11 Thread DJ
On Sat, 10 Dec 1994, Doug Henwood wrote: > .. 2) by the Calgary-based business writer George Koch, called "Canada's > Newt: How Alberta's premier aims to cut government spending." It > celebrates the budget cutting led by Ralph Klein, who is prortrayed in an > accompanying cartoon as holding

Re: federal Reserve taxes

1994-12-11 Thread jtreacy
Treacy: The Fed to my knowledge pays no taxes but contributes part of its profits to the Treasury. This subject was one that was near and dear to Congressman Wright Patman of Texas. He used to be concerned with the fact that the Fed was not subject to Congressional oversig

Re: federal Reserve taxes

1994-12-11 Thread Doug Henwood
Accordin to table 3.2 of the NIPAs, the Fed paid $16.0 billion to the US government in 1993, out of a total of $143.0 billion in corporate profit tax accruals (the Fed included). Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Sat, 10 D

Re: federal Reserve taxes

1994-12-11 Thread Doug Henwood
Sorry. Forgot to include the figs for earlier years, to show the trend over time. federal corporate profit taxes - total, and Federal Reserve share Fed corp prof tax 1960 0.921.4 1965 1.328.9 1970 3.530.6 1975 5.4

re:Canada, Via Barron's

1994-12-11 Thread PHILLPS
It is not for nothing that Alberta is (fondly :-)) known in ROC as "Texas North". Paul Phillips

Up-Date on Narmada Dam

1994-12-11 Thread Andrew Sessions
The following is an up-date and further information on the Narmada Dam project in India. If you would like to place your name on the letter/petition at the end of this message please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and he will add it to the India Alert! list of names. Also, feel free to post thi

Indian Dam Update/Development

1994-12-11 Thread Andrew Sessions
bhopal, dec 10 (PTI)-- noted enviornmentalist medha patkar, who is on a hunger strike demanding stoppage of work on the dollar five-billion multipurpose project over river narmada, was arrested early saturday and hospitalised for administration of i.V. Fluids. Patkar, who is head of the nar

Re: federal Reserve taxes

1994-12-11 Thread Helene Jorgensen
On Sat, 10 Dec 1994 22:08:15 -0800 Michael Perelman said: >Does anybody know off hand how much the Fed pays in taxes and what share >it is of the total corporrate tax contributions? How has the share increased >over time? > >I remember that it was a relatively high percentage. >-- According to th

Re: federal Reserve taxes

1994-12-11 Thread Michael Perelman
The fed earns an emormous amout of $ from the interest it earns on U.S. gov't securities. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 916-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re Western Hemisphere Free Trade Pact

1994-12-11 Thread peter_robertson
I was trying to summarise Barry Levitt's comments on the Western Hemsiphere FTA for the purposes of a reply, but decded I couldn't really do it fairly, so those interested will have to refer back to his post. In conrast to Barry, however I think that the POTENTIAL effects from a WHFTA

Re: Re Western Hemisphere Free Trade Pact

1994-12-11 Thread Paul Bowles
It seems to me that WHFTA is half of the U.S. response to its declining economic hegemony: open up cheap labour and resource rich countries for U.S. companies by reducing tariffs and, probably more important, getting investment laws in place which protect those companies. At the same time, tr