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To: Real Man who wrote (382505)	3/19/2009 12:57:56 PM
From: Trumptown	Respond to of 436258

<<WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats are rushing through a legally questionable tax on employee bonuses from bailed-out firms to paper over the failure of the Obama administration and key lawmakers to stop those payouts, Republicans charged Thursday. "The Democratic bill brought to the floor today is constitutionally questionable," said Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind. "It's obviously a transparent attempt to divert attention away from the truth that Democrats in Congress and this administration made these bonus payments possible." A tax expert said there is plenty of precedent for levying punative taxes on behavior that lawmakers find objectionable. Robert Willens, a corporate tax lawyer in New York, cited the steep excise taxes levied on money paid to firms to keep them from launching hostile takeover bids, known as "greenmail.">> finance.yahoo.com __________________________ Can we tax congress for being such idiots?...this smoke screen is just more transparent BS...