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Letters in the Editor's Mailbag - The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon, USA Page 3 of 6 <br /> area that is being converted from the cannery site and the <br /> additional land the city has purchased for development to <br /> ciew complement the new federal building as the Martin Luther King <br /> Jr. Plaza and arrange the streets, by-ways, etc., so that each <br /> address located within the plaza - federal, city or private - <br /> would carry the designation as a necessary part of each <br /> individual address. <br /> KEITH RICHARD <br /> Eugene <br /> Tax cut not about jobs <br /> So President Bush and his Republicans have enacted yet <br /> another huge tax break for their wealthiest supporters. This <br /> one, which will lower the tax rate on corporate dividends, is <br /> even more scandalous than its predecessor two years ago. <br /> Every working man and woman should be outraged. Our <br /> salaries and wages earned by hard work every day will <br /> continue to be taxed, but coupon-clipping income will be taxed <br /> at a lower rate. <br /> Do not let Bush or other Republicans fool you again into <br /> believing that this latest tax cut for themselves is really about <br /> creating jobs. If they truly cared about jobs, they would simply <br /> send to Oregon and other states enough money to restore and <br /> create the family-wage jobs that their recession is forcing us to <br /> destroy - jobs in education, law enforcement, health care and <br /> highway and park maintenance. <br /> Let us all remember well, between now and November 2004, <br /> that to millions of Americans currently without work, or health <br /> care, or sometimes even food, Bush and his Republicans have <br /> responded once again not with jobs, or health plans, or food <br /> programs, but with a huge tax boondoggle for the wealthy. <br /> And, of course, the result is a spiralling national debt that we <br /> working taxpayers will have to shoulder far into the future. <br /> JIM MOONEY <br /> Eugene <br /> Use diplomacy in Iran <br /> Remembering those who gave their lives for our country in <br /> past wars over Memorial Day weekend, we were saddened <br /> when reading that the Bush administration will now try to <br /> destabilize the Iranian government (Register-Guard, May 25). <br /> Intelligence suggests that less than a dozen al-Qaeda <br /> members exist in a remote, northeastern part of Iran - perhaps <br /> http://www.registerguard.com/cgi-bin/printStory.py?name=ed.letters.0601&date=20030601 6/4/03 <br />