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Christmas spends most of his working day in silence. For the first hours of his shift, he is the only person inside of Paine Concert Hall and continues to work alone even as morning classes begin...
After Christmas gets off work at 1:30 p.m., he says will head home for lunch before his 5 to 9 p.m. shift as a janitor at Children’s Hospital...
Bush may talk about his special brand of conservatism that cares for ordinary people and the environment, but once again he failed to follow through. It is the height of hypocrisy to pass a tax cut that supposedly benefits ordinary Americans, as Bush did last year, and then shift the tax burden of the Superfund to working class Americans later, as he is doing now. The Superfund was about justice; those who greedily polluted America’s natural resources had to pay. Now it seems that polluters can destroy our environment with impunity...
...reported budget proposals don't come as a complete surprise; over the past few years, the burden of Superfund expenses slowly shifted away from corporations and over to taxpayers. Still, says Grant Cope, staff attorney at USPIRG, Bush's decision is a momentous shift that bodes ill for the future of Superfund...
...think this marks a major shift in overall policy," Cope says. "Remember, the last three Presidents, including Bush senior and Reagan, were all in favor of renewing the corporate Superfund tax." Neither the first Bush nor Reagan administrations could ever be accused of being anti-business, but the current Bush administration wants to rewrite that policy to save corporations up to $1 billion per year in taxes...