Green Line Contract
Japanese businessmen and workers benefiting from the Green Line contract will not pay U.S. or California taxes. Neither will American workers, who could have had the same jobs but will cost the taxpayers unemployment benefits. I wonder if the officials who awarded the contract to Sumitomo factored that into the $0.08 million per point difference. Did they care?
LAWRENCE VIDOR
Long Beach
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