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1 posted on 09/09/2006 5:35:18 PM PDT by Graybeard58

2 posted on 09/09/2006 5:35:42 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)

Wow, the senate actually did something useful this year.

3 posted on 09/09/2006 5:40:26 PM PDT by dr_who_2

The authority only applies to soldiers of the 172nd, the amendment states.

Good find, Graybeard, and a noble thing to do.

However, the principle is bad. All laws are supposed to apply to all citizens equally, without discrimination. This restricts the law to the 172nd. That is good in this case but it is bad law.

Before Jim Wright got ousted as Speaker of the House, he added an amendment to a bill which exempted all persons living at a certain Ft. Worth, TX address from income taxes for that year. It saved one of his avid supporters from $4,000,000 in taxes. That should not be allowed.

6 posted on 09/09/2006 9:25:00 PM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done, needs to be done by the government.)

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