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House OKs 90 Percent Tax on Bonuses
Fox News ^ | March 19, 2009 | Fox News

Posted on 03/19/2009 12:05:53 PM PDT by DakotaRed

Breaking news alert from Fox News, the House has approved the 90% tax on bonuses given out by firms that accepted bailout funds.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aig; billofattainder; bonuses; communism; dodd; kleptocracy; marxistcoup; pelosi; propertyrights; socialistblitzkrieg
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1 posted on 03/19/2009 12:05:53 PM PDT by DakotaRed
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To: DakotaRed

You have got to be kidding? We haven’t had a 90% tax bracket since Truman’s day.


2 posted on 03/19/2009 12:06:30 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: DakotaRed

Just think if there is a 12% state tax, lol. These people are commies, pure and simple.


3 posted on 03/19/2009 12:06:57 PM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: DakotaRed

Unconstitutional. Just like the empty suit. Illegitimate.


4 posted on 03/19/2009 12:07:14 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: DakotaRed
The challenges that this law is both an ex post facto law and a bill of attainder should be interesting.
5 posted on 03/19/2009 12:07:25 PM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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To: DakotaRed

Here is the roll call vote. 255 to 160
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll144.xml


6 posted on 03/19/2009 12:07:50 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: DakotaRed

There should be so many legal challenges to this law. You can design a law to specifical punish certain people, especially something after the fact.


7 posted on 03/19/2009 12:08:00 PM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: DakotaRed

F***** communists. Time to get rid of the whole lot.


8 posted on 03/19/2009 12:08:09 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: DakotaRed

Matters not.. it’s unconstitutional.


9 posted on 03/19/2009 12:08:12 PM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: DakotaRed

The seizure of private property (income earned per a contract) by special tax assessment must now be constitutional

change!


10 posted on 03/19/2009 12:08:36 PM PDT by silverleaf (Freedom's just another word for "nothing left to lose")
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To: Question_Assumptions

Do they just ignore that they knew of the bonuses and that it was Senator Dodd who placed the exemption for their pay outs in the bill?


11 posted on 03/19/2009 12:08:54 PM PDT by DakotaRed (Don't you wish you had supported a conservative when you had the chance?)
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To: DakotaRed

An amendment also passed, stating the ‘sense of the house’ that the entire mess is NOT the fault of the magnificent TOTUS.


12 posted on 03/19/2009 12:09:16 PM PDT by harwood (Ann Coulter: Future SCOTUS nominee!)
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To: mnehring

Wrong bill.

HR 1586

That is the resolution about 0bama being perfect


13 posted on 03/19/2009 12:09:35 PM PDT by EBH (The world is a balance between good & evil, your next choice will tip the scale.)
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To: DakotaRed

Social engineering via the tax code...nothing new to see here.
The Constitution doesn’t matter to ends justifies the means Liberals...nothing new to see here.


14 posted on 03/19/2009 12:09:40 PM PDT by socialismisinsidious ( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
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To: Always Right
I'm sure you meant can't, how true.

I saw this discussed by experts on TV last nite.

Unconstitutional and illegal.

SSDD for democrats.

15 posted on 03/19/2009 12:09:48 PM PDT by Syncro (Qui non intelligit, aut taceat, aut discat)
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To: Always Right

You’re exactly right and I desperately hope these Marxists get shot down.


16 posted on 03/19/2009 12:09:53 PM PDT by flintsilver7 (Honest reporting hasn't caught on in the United States.)
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To: mnehring

Who is John Galt?


17 posted on 03/19/2009 12:09:57 PM PDT by Charlespg
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To: mnehring

318/95


18 posted on 03/19/2009 12:10:04 PM PDT by EBH (The world is a balance between good & evil, your next choice will tip the scale.)
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To: DakotaRed
How many repubs voted yea? Just curious.
19 posted on 03/19/2009 12:10:49 PM PDT by duckman (Jesus I trust in You. Mary take over)
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To: DakotaRed

What country is this? I thought the Soviet Union was dead...................apparently not.......................


20 posted on 03/19/2009 12:10:56 PM PDT by Red Badger (0bama: I'm not a socialist......................(I'm a Trotskyite)...............)
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