15 April 2003


Right on Finland...!

A woman president and prime minister! Cool....
... Anneli Jäätteenmäki will be her country's first prime minister after her party - the Centre Party - won the elections last month.

The coalition has agreed to cut taxes by a little more that €1b during their period in office, and to give higher subsidies to families with young children.

Ms Jäätteenmäki is the first woman premier in Finland. The country got its first woman president, former EU Commissioner Tarja Halonen, in 2000, and was, incidentally, the first country in Europe to introduce votes for women, in 1906....[More here.]

And look what their government plans to do right off: cut taxes and raise subsidies to families with young children. Nothing there about tax cuts for the richest of the rich.

I am so sick of "trickle down" economics! More like, "Piss on the poor and call it dew from heaven."

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