You thought they wre really fixing the country? LOL! The policitinas were just having some fun with us! Ge, they acted so sincere! Well they did it again!
There was an awful lot of pork in this government bailout bill, and if you check who sponsored most of it was Democrats. No this in not a political rant, this is a fact. Do your own research. It isn't a political rant. I guess they had to pay back all the political gifts and favors they have received. You thought they were doing the right thing, the fact is it is business as usual in DC. So we have been screwed, and get ready for more. Here are just some of the pork barrel items inserted into the bill. Go ahead, do your own reserach. Some of these programs go into the billions! Yes, BILLIONS!
Before you comment, do your own research and have some fun. Check out who sponsored what! Then remember it next time you vote! We've been sold out!
- Increase in limit on rum excise tax to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. For Rum Manufacturers.
- Investors in the District of Columbia or on Indian reservations.
- Exemption from excise tax for certain wooden arrows for children. - Save Arrow manufacturers $200K a Year!
- Building and renovating restaurants.
- 7 year cost recovery period for motorsports racing track facilities. - save NASCAR track builders $109 million in 2008.
- Extension and modification of research credit. (Tax Breaks for major Corportations!)
- A $3.5 billion measure intended for health-insurance companies to cover mental illness. Provides extended coverage for addiction at employer expense.
- Income averaging for amounts received with the Exxon Valdez litigation.
- Secure rural schools and community self-determination programs
- Deduction for state and local sales taxes.
- Provisions related to film and television productions.
- Extension and modification of duty suspension on wool products; wool research fund; wool duty refunds.
- Extension of economic development credit for American Samoa. $192 million.
- Inclusion of cellulosic biofuel in bonus depreciation for biomass ethanol plant property.
- Transportation fringe benefit to bicycle commuters.
- Enhanced charitable deductions for contributions of food inventory.
- Extension of enhanced charitable deduction for contributions of book inventory to schools.
- Transfer - abandoned mine reclamation fund - Abandondoned Funds given to United Mine Workers of America Combined Benefit Fund.
- Doubles the subsidy for biodiesel production from 50 cents per gallon to $1.00 per gallon.
- The bailout bill pays a marketing campaign for the Forestry Service or the Bureau of Land Management.
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Aloha Jim,
I think this was Bush's last big pay off to all his buddies