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| | Archive | December 1997 | Brother, can you spare a few million? |
 | | According to Toronto Star columnist Ellie Tesher, quite a few Canadians view it as "obscene" that banks make huge profits "in the face of massive government cutbacks to equally significant areas of society -- health, education, culture". |
 | | Tell him or her, she says, that more money should be contributed when "it's so badly needed." Of course, to Tesher, ineffective money spent by government should be matched by ineffective money spent by business. |
 | | Katz and Tesher, and their ilk, may not be capitalist, but their definition of capitalism rests on altruist grounds, that capitalism exists to meet the common good, not the individual good. |
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