Question on abatements

I think it’s great that counties give tax abatements for businesses.
I know the abatements given to industries pay into local, state, federal and Social Security. I do have a question regarding CFOs and other businesses. Is there any way to track if taxes are being paid? Abatements are our tax monies. Democrat or Republican, it affects every taxpayer.
Mikel Premer
Pennville

Whose power?
To the editor:
Open letter to the Congress of the United States of America.
If you are one of those feel-good Americans the media polls keep talking about in terms of going to war. Just a reminder that Gen. William Sherman was correct in 1880 when he said, “War is hell!” Of course, it will be another no-win war — exactly the sort of war almost every president since Truman has gotten us into.
And how about our brave servicemen and women? How many will be killed in this war which may be lost before it gets started? How many will be wounded and spend the rest of their lives in hospital beds or wheelchairs? How many will be captured and disappear forever, thanks to the undeclared war by our government just as 8,000 disappeared in Korea and 2,800 in Vietnam? Are we foolish to think that “our” government will try to rescue them with any more vigor than it did after other wars?
The United States has formally declared war five times. The last declared war was World War II when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941. The process used in each message was a war message from the president and Congress declared war. The hurried, unjust major conflicts in Korea (55,000 U.S. deaths) and Vietnam (more than 45,000) led to passage of the War Powers Resolution Act in 1973. It provided the president could take unilateral military action provided that: 1. There is a declaration of war by Congress and 2. There is a specific statutory authority from Congress and there is a national emergency created by an attack on the United States. This was to prevent another situation in which the president could gradually build up American involvement in a foreign war without Congressional approval (as in Vietnam).
The lesson to be learned in Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution is that in the United States one man cannot declare war. That can be done only by the approval of both Houses of Congress. It is the only authority that can make the commitment of our national economy and the lives of our sons and daughters to preserve and protect the United States if we are attacked.
I believe it should be stated the United Nations does have an army — ours. Articles 41-51 of the U.N. charter deals with action the U.N. may take against any nation. Articles 43-45 require member nations to furnish military forces (peace-keepers) to be used against such nations under U.N./NATO command.
The authority to transfer U.S. military power to U.N. control was passed by Congress in 1961 (i.e.: Public Law 87-297, The Arms Control and Disarmament Act.” This legislation purports to legalize the transfer of U.S. military to the U.N. without any power from the U.S. Constitution. The promoters of the U.N. say Article VI power of the constitution to make treaties is the supreme law of the land.
A treaty, however, cannot authorize what the constitution forbids. “No federal agent has power or authority to modify or dissolve the Constitutional Compact.”
Congress should know it has the power to “declare war, to raise armies, to provide and maintain a navy, to make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces …” But under the U.N. Charter, a treaty, Congress no longer has such power and they take advantage of situations to make their dream come true — a New World Order.
The U.S. is committed by treaty to help carry out this program dictated by the U.N.
Thank you very much. As I see it.
Paul F. Double
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