December 08, 2005


Screwing our Future to the Wall

Because you can never fuck over our children, our soldiers, and all the future generations of citizens enough, it's time to have another tax-cut.

The House passed three separate tax cuts yesterday and plans to approve a fourth today, trimming the federal revenue by $94.5 billion over five years -- nearly double the budget savings that Republicans muscled through the House last month.

GOP leaders portray the tax bills -- for the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast, affluent investors, U.S. troops serving in Iraq and taxpayers who otherwise would be hit by the alternative minimum tax -- as vital to keeping the economy rolling.

OK, so they gave themselves some cover by passing some tax relief for US boots on the ground in Iraq. How nice, well it's a 94.5 Billion dollar tax bill, so there must be a nice chunk of change for those troops stuck in that misbegotten hell-hole on the Tigris River, right? Right? Achtung, not so fast, Chuck-O...
Finally, the House passed a modest, $153 million tax break that would extend a provision allowing members of the military to use their combat pay to claim the earned income credit.
From Wikipedia:
This is for the working poor. You have to have income earning from wages of less than $29,900. This credit was enacted under President Gerald Ford in 1975
Extend a provision that would enable military members to use their combat pay to claim the Earned Income Credit? Holy shit...so they're recognizing that the junior enlisted that have to claim the Earned Income Credit are living below the poverty level? Oh, I forgot, they "Support Our Troops", except when they don't, by having them live in Poverty while risking their lives. How thoughtful.

Oh,and doing the math, 153 million is something like .16% of the proposed 94.5 Billion dollars being allocated to the wealthiest 1% of Americans, most of whom are probably just thrilled with their votes to destroy the America these soldiers defend with their lives for poverty-level minimum-wages.

posted by Jo Fish on 12.08.05 at 08:55 AM





Comments:

Yeah...let us not forget that the Republicans are the Party of the Military........

posted by: rightfielder on 12.08.05 at 04:26 PM [permalink]



I can deduct the cost of my ribbon magnet, right?

posted by: BroD on 12.08.05 at 09:16 PM [permalink]



You said it well. Alas.

posted by: JulieB on 12.09.05 at 04:06 PM [permalink]






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