As they prepare to
House Democrats intend to pass a raft of popular measures as part of their well-publicized plan for the first 100 hours. They include tightening ethics rules for lawmakers, raising the minimum wage, allowing more research on stem cells and cutting interest rates on student loans.
But instead of allowing Republicans to fully participate in
See what happens when you don’t play well with others? You get locked out of the treehouse until you learn the secret password.
It’s a shame you have to lie to get anything accomplished in Washington, but as long as they’re lying to the Republicans, I’m good with that.
After the Reps get over the shock and awe of being publicly dissed, you can bet things are going to get ugly in the House. Sure hope we’ve traded in our pantaloons for boxing gloves, although I believe shivs will come in handier.
Read on (Link via Alex)
1 comment:
Joan of Snark... Seems as if you buy into all Republican, the snark party. Lets take the Repbulican snark of related to US Corporations paying too high of taxes and that is why we have unemployment. Here is the straight scoop on that...
There is a difference between statutory corporate tax rates and effective tax rates. For example GE has a statutory corporate tax rate of 35%. They pay zero taxes (2010) due to breaks and loop holes. Effective... tax rate is 0%. The US statutory tax rate is ~equal to those of the G7/G8 countires. Yes even on the higher side, but that is smoke and mirrors. A fair reflection of effective corporate tax rate is the percent the US goverment collectes in taxes from corporations as a percent of that countries GDP. That number is about ~1.8 percent for the US. One of the lowest in the world. Effective tax rate in the US is one of the lowest in the industrial world. Hope I have brought some clarity to the issue. This one is just a bit deeper than the corporation would have you believe. Can you blame them? No... it is capitalism, which is good, but it is greedy and needs some checks and balances.
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