Big government gonna get their share

[ConHog]

BP Relief to Be Taxed? | UNCOVERAGE.net

Now we know why Obama really wanted the relief fund. More tax money

 

[Zoom-boing]

If these folks are being compensated for wages lost and they would have paid taxes on those wages if they had been earned (via their livelihood), shouldn't they be taxed on the compensation from BP?

Also from the article

Congress, however, set a precedent for just such relief payments following Hurricane Katrina and is expected to act – possibly as soon as today – to exempt those payments from the clutches of the IRS.

Sounds like it won't be an issue.

 

[Oddball]

But it wasn't a shakedown...Or anything like that...