House passes tax cut bill

[Roon]

WASHINGTON - The House Wednesday passed a bill sought by President Bush to deliver tax cuts worth $70 billion to investors and to keep 15 million taxpayers from being hit by the alternative minimum tax

The House passed the measure by a 244-185 vote. The Senate is expected to clear the bill Thursday.

The bill provides a two-year extension of the reduced 15 percent tax rate for capital gains and dividends, currently set to expire at the end of 2008.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12726774/

[tridim]

1. FUUUUUCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKK!

I give up.

[babylonsister]

2. I'm speechless. How can they get away with this when the

deficit is so high, and why does no one seem to give a shit?:banghead:
I'll be curious to see if any Dems voted for this travesty.

[dysfunctional press]

14. because they own & control the mainstream media.

when a dictator comes into power, the first thing they usually do is take over the media.
this bunch got control of the media first, and then used it to perform a peaceful coup in 2000.

[Freddie Stubbs]

34. 15 Democrats voted for it and 2 Republicans voted against it

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll135.xml

[Rex]

3. Tax cuts worth 70 billion to investors.

Suck it up worker bees!

[ChiciB1]

4. OBVIOUSLY Some Democrats Voted FOR This Too!

Anybody have the names?? Guess those millionaires are gonna get around $42,000.00 in cuts... for the first million!

I think those making around $20,000 will get perhaps $9.00 to $12.00! Barely 3 gallons of milk!

But didn't Marie Antoinette say we could eat cake??

[babylonsister]

5. Actually, no, she didn't...

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_334.html

Did the French queen, Marie Antoinette, ever actually utter the phrase, "Let them eat cake"? I have a friend who claims that Crazy Marie actually said something in French that, in phonetic spelling, merely sounded like "Let them eat cake." Is the line in a class with Humphrey Bogart's "Play it again, Sam"--i.e., bogus? --Willie H., Chicago

Dear Willie:

I have a dream that someday one of these alleged facts of history is actually going to pan out. However, today is not the day. While Marie Antoinette was certainly enough of a bubblehead to have said the phrase in question, there is no evidence that she actually did so, and in any case she did not originate it. The peasants-have-no-bread story was in common currency at least since the 1760s as an illustration of the decadence of the aristocracy. The political philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau mentions it in his Confessions in connection with an incident that occurred in 1740. (He stole wine while working as a tutor in Lyons and then had problems trying to scrounge up something to eat along with it.) He concludes thusly: "Finally I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: 'Well, let them eat cake.'"

Now, J.-J. may have been embroidering this yarn with a line he had really heard many years later. But even so, at the time he was writing--early 1766--Marie Antoinette was only ten years old and still four years away from her marriage to the future Louis XVI. Writer Alphonse Karr in 1843 claimed that the line originated with a certain Duchess of Tuscany in 1760 or earlier, and that it was attributed to Marie Antoinette in 1789 by radical agitators who were trying to turn the populace against her.
more...

[pansypoo53219]

16. i heard/read somewhere

that the cake to which she was refering to was a hard tack kind of bisquit. not pount, chocolate, carrot, or a ding dong, but maybe more like a 3 daybagel.

[ChiciB1]

31. That's Probably What It Was....

I like the way you phrased that!

[ChiciB1]

30. Sorry For My Late Reply... I Had A Visitor & She Just Left.

One of the reasons I enjoy blogging is because so many people chime in with these types of facts. I'm always saying there's something new to learn every day no matter how old you get. Actually, if you pay attention you can learn a lot.

Thanks for the information, I have also heard that down through the years, just as we are making history today, in time what ACTUALLY happened will not reported as it ACTUALLY happened! I'm sure it is true.

Funny, I was raised in a strict Catholic family and up until I got married was completely entrenched. The Catholic Church was, well Gospel! I went in search of other religions, spirituality, American Indian life just alternative teachings. What I've come to think is that perhaps many things in the Bible might not be true either. I'm no atheist, I'm just not sure that everything that I learned when I was younger was really how it was. Of course, this is the eternal question, for me anyway.

Thanks again!

[depakid]

6. I'm sure it's the usual suspects

The party wonders why it's lost 6 congressional elections in a row- and maybe a 7th come November- here's another one of those reasons....

[juajen]

7. Lou Dobbs said it was on party lines?

N/T

[depakid]

8. Then Lou Dobbs can't add or read.

But that's what you get for watching CNN- misinformed.

The House passed the measure by a 244-185 vote. That means more than a few Dems went right ahead and voted for yet another far right fiscal travesty.

[Robbien]

9. Fifteen Dems sold us down the river and voted for the bill

Barrow, Bean (IL), Boren, Case, Cramer, Cuellar, Davis (TN), Ford, Gordon, Marshall, Matheson, McIntyre, Melancon, Peterson (MN), and Salazar

Two Republicans voted no

Boehlert and Leach

[stepnw1f]

15. Everyone of Them Has to Go!!!!

I hope they enjoy the repercussions of screwing the MAJORITY of this country.

[butterfly77]

22. Is that Harold ford?

I am so tired of his phoney hypocritical ass!

[Xeric]

10. and my DINO congresslady does it again

Melissa Bean (8th illinois) is one of the 15 frauds that pretend to be Democrats yet voted for this. She's more Repuke than some of the Repukes. How can I vote for this awful woman? She voted For the Bankruptcy BIll, the Schiavo Bill, CAFTA, etc. etc.
Color me disgusted. http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll135.xml

[depakid]

11. Vote her out then.

The DINO in my district isn't getting my vote this year- or any other year. Period. EVER.

Until the party gets rid of these far right enablers- it's bound to keep on losing down the line- on issue after issue and election after election.

[brentspeak]

17. Their "yea" vote didn't enable anything

If their votes were the deciding factor, THEN you can say that they're "enablers". But their votes had no effect; the bill already had more than enough votes to pass anyway. The Dems who voted "yes" simply played politics, and their actions were "no harm, no foul".

[superconnected]

20. May I ask how voting for what they are against is playing politics?

Why are they trying to score by voting for this when their base is primarily not full of rich investors.

[Xeric]

21. In my idiot's case

she's not just "playing politics". She voted for CAFTA when the vote was close enough that her vote was the difference between it passing or not. She sent me a stupid letter explaining why she voted for it (It would benefit some pharma companies she's beholden to). In the case of the Schiavo vote, she stupidly voted for it without realizing that the majority of the population was against it. She's hopeless. The ONLY reason I would vote for her is if it made the difference between the Dem's control of the house or not and with the incompetence of the Dems, I'm not sure it's going to be even close. They seem to love throwing away victory.
Jeezus fuck I'm pissed.

[depakid]

23. And in my idiot's case

He WAS the deciding vote in the Medicare scam....

THE deciding vote. Then of course there's the bankruptcy bill and some local matters that tell me what he stands for.

I'd rather have a Republican in his seat for 2 years then run a real Dem in.

[PassingFair]

29. Why do you hate Democrats?

We have to present a UNITED FRONT!
:sarcasm:

We MUST vote them out at the primary stage.
Starting with Lieberman. Send a message.

[Freddie Stubbs]

35. The Illinois primary was weeks ago

Should Democrats vote for the Republican running against her?

[DUHandle]

12. Change for a five?

[Tight_rope]

13. Yeah...I'll be getting back $9.00 more in my 2006 tax returns....

That doesn't even buy me a quarter tank of gas.

[Blue_Forney05]

18. There goes interest rates even higher now! Don't these rich fucks

realize that if it was not for the lower and middle classes then there would be no upper class? Or do these jerks wants a serfdom society?:eyes:

[superconnected]

19. When the middle class actually goes there will be a revolution.

The rich won't survive.

It's not like the poor who never had it good, it's taking away from the people that know better and are better educated.

[MissWaverly]

36. Yes, but if you make over a million, you get $48,000

What did Bush say at that dinner: Some people call you the haves and the have mores. I call
you my base.

paraphrase

[Psephos]

24. April tax receipts were the second highest ever

Maybe attention would best be focused on reigning in spending. It's hard to fight a two-front war...and Treasury receipts suggest that tax rates may not be the biggest problem.

My opinion, nothing more, nothing less.

Peace.

[WobbliesUnite]

25. I agree. With tax receipts at near record levels

They need to rein in spending

[Jamison]

26. That would mean less war.

& that's not gonna happen with this administration.:mad:

[WobbliesUnite]

28. Less everything I think

[Bridget Burke]

33. Where would you recommend cuts?

Aside from social programs, that is.

[DesertRat]

27. Damn Damn Damn

:mad:

[OneBlueSky]

32. ONE MORE TIME . . . they truly believe they can do ANYTHING . . .

they want to do . . . and their history of success certainly supports that belief . . .

not only do they BELIEVE they can do anything they want to -- they actually DO whatever they want to . . . with absolutely no negative consequences to them . . .

BushCo will continue to do anything they damn well please until one of two things happens . . . either . . .

1) They are removed from office (and BushCo from power), or

2) Someone in authority (Congress, SCOTUS, the people) tells them they can't do something (like, say, attacking Iran) -- and can make it stick.

until then, they will continue to do whatever the hell they want to do . . . and spit in our eyes as they do it . . .

[caligirl]

37. We lost the college tuition tax deduction in this!

[Festivito]

38. Another $280 per American to pay in order to keep the rich rich.

Lucky us!

[4_TN_TITANS]

39. What tha..... Bart Gordon aye?????

off to ask him :wtf: