The "Bush Tax Cuts" Extension -- Would YOU Vote For The Bill?

Even early on, I was not in favor of the bill.

In those intervening days the bill has been bastardized and bloated to the point that it resembles an Obaka Porkulus submission. If one would object to that, why is it that so many Republicans seem to be interested in voting for the BTC "deal"?

Let us speak and me write plainly: the Demorats have, as we well know, hijacked much of our current political language. The so-called "Bush Tax Cuts" are NOT cuts at all. These are nothing more than our current tax rates. There are NO "cuts" involved. A failure to extend the current tax rates means a massive tax hike. Those are the facts.

Labeling the current rate as "Bush Tax Cuts" is akin to the Demorats -- traditionally -- calling a failure to increase a given federal department's yearly budget a "cut."

First, in re "the deal" -- who has actually read the thing?

Second, the cost: $1.1 TRILLION and over 1,900 pages.

As Politico writes:

In a scene reminiscent of the movie “Casablanca,” top Republicans expressed shock, shock that there was gambling still in Rick’s Cafe even after their own members have been quietly working to write the bill and gather GOP votes for passage.

Third, there are 6,488 earmarks within.

You read that correctly. And here are but a few:

$277,000 for potato pest management in Wisconsin
$246,000 for bovine tuberculosis in Michigan and Minnesota
$522,000 for cranberry and blueberry disease and breeding in New Jersey
$500,000 for oyster safety in Florida
$349,000 for swine waste management in North Carolina
$413,000 for peanut research in Alabama
$247,000 for virus free wine grapes in Washington
$208,000 beaver management in North Carolina
$94,000 for blackbird management in Louisiana
$165,000 for maple syrup research in Vermont
$235,000 for noxious weed management in Nevada
$100,000 for the Edgar Allen Poe Cottage Visitor’s Center in New York
$300,000 for the Polynesian Voyaging Society in Hawaii
$400,000 for solar parking canopies and plug-in electric stations in Kansas

Ladies and gentlemen, I submit this as nothing more than clear proof that DC politicians on BOTH sides of the aisle did NOT receive the recent transmission from the American People, broadcast in the clear, this past November during the mid-terms:

STOP SPENDING.

These bastards simply cannot contain themselves. Your money isn't really yours; it belongs to them. You are simply a Money Factory with a limitless production line and the temporary holder of cash that must be funneled to DC.

Yet, some Republican senators are actually thinking about supporting it (Bennett of Utah, Bond of Missouri, Voinovich of Ohio and Collins of Maine).

Luckily, John Thune (R, South Dakota) speaks the obvious:

The attempt by Democrat leadership to rush through a nearly 2,000-page spending bill in the final days of the lame-duck session ignores the clear will expressed by the voters this past election," Thune said in a statement. "This bill is loaded up with pork projects and should not get a vote. Congress should listen to the American people and stop this reckless spending.”

This is the time to take a stand, Republicans, right out of the gate following the November mid-terms.

But are you more interested in "going along to get along"?

Just another day in "Political Exclusionary Paradise"?

So, dearest readers: how would YOU vote?

Because, after all, if you vote this bill down then you allow the current tax rates to expire. And they won't go down; oh no no no. Tax rates will go up come January 1st.

What's your strategy then?

BZ