Zoom-boing
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Seems to me that as galling as it is that Chris Dodd and Tim Geithner will get fingers shaken at them but otherwise get a pass. . . .
And as galling as it is that it is now clear that President Obama, or at least his top advisors, knew this was going to happen some time ago. . . .
And as galling as it is that all those executives who ran AIG into the ground will be rewarded with millions and millions of dollars for doing that. . . .
There is a larger issue at stake here that should strike fear into the heart of every American patriot.
That issue is that our Congress is presuming to target a specific group for punative taxes, and given the great groundswell of anger out there, probably most taxpayers won't care. But such a move by our government will put all of us at risk. Let a precedent be set for that without challenge and none of us will be safe. A increasingly power drunk leadership from the head down might just exercise additional disciplines as they see fit. And that puts us on a slippery slope that every principle in our Constitution was intended to avoid and could leave us all unprotected and vulnerable.
They can't do this. And we can't allow it.
I asked this on another thread. Anyone else think this whole AIG/bonus/loophole thing is a coincidence? Look what they've just done -- passed a bill to retro tax money. Anyone know exactly how that bill is worded?