May 27, 2003
Let’s face it. The Bushites are going to continue steamrolling ahead with their agendas on all fronts whether we ordinary tax-paying citizens like it or not. They couldn’t care less that we express public opposition through every possible medium. It doesn’t seem to matter a bit to them how much publicity their onerous advances get both nationally and internationally. No skin off their noses, right?
The following was mentioned by Tom Brokaw on the Nightly News, but it hasn’t been posted on that site yet. I got it from the Detroit Free Press:
A loophole that allows small-business owners to deduct $25,000 for luxury sport-utility vehicles will grow to $100,000 under the $350-billion stimulus plan expected to be approved by the Senate today and signed by President George W. Bush on Monday…. The provision was created in 1996 to prevent farmers and others from being penalized by the 10-percent luxury tax on vehicles costing over $30,000 when they purchased pickup trucks and tractors…. …Taxpayers for Common Sense, based in Washington, estimates the SUV loophole could cost taxpayers between $840 million and $987 million for every 100,000 vehicles sold to businesses….
Just another example of the Bushite tradition of twisting, distorting, and manipulating something that was supposed to help those in need and making it serve the elite instead. The Nightly News interviewed several businessmen who were all set to buy sedans, but, wotthehell, why not upgrade and get the tax deduction. More than $800 million in lost taxes that could be used to help those who can't even afford a bicycle? Hell, no skin off their noses.
And then, on an Australian news web site, an even more devastatingly evil report -- this time about the Bushites’ machinations regarding plans for death camps at Guantanamo Bay.
Prisoners would be tried, convicted and executed without leaving its boundaries, without a jury and without right of appeal, The Mail on Sunday newspaper reported yesterday…. General Miller said building a death row was one plan. Another was to have a permanent jail, with possibly an execution chamber. …The US has already said detainees would be tried by tribunals, without juries or appeals to a higher court. Detainees will be allowed only US lawyers.
The Bushites don’t pay any attention to the millions of Americans who oppose either all or parts of their agenda for power. Instead, they continue to disregard just about every human right defended by the U.N. Charter, the Geneva Convention, the American Constitution, and most of the great religious traditions of this planet. Is the rest of the world going to have to unite against the arrogance of our American leaders before those egomaniacs begin paying attention to just how much opposition, anger, and distrust they are stirring up? They sure ain’t listening to us.
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Old Comments (4)
-bp- on 27 May 2003
For more information on the tax break for oversized SUV's, see http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1220-09.htm
Richard on 28 May 2003
You know, I sometimes think that Bush and his bottom line cut and burn policies which invariably favor the wealth classes are going to lead to a second civil war in this country. But then I wake up and realize how far gone in apathy most of the population of this country seems to be.
The Dynamic Driveler on 28 May 2003
Also don't forget how they are treating the Iraqi POWs. See http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,963108,00.html
They are keeping them in uinhumane conditions and are not allowing the International Red Cross access to the POWs in clear violation of the Geneva Convention.
The story about the SUV tax break is not new. I and others scovered it back in February when it hit the newswires then. I picked the story up from Nando Times (who have just shut down their operation so their archives aren't available) but i know it was covered elsewhere. Maybe that's why it isn't getting a lot of coverage now.
myrln on 29 May 2003
Consider also: a $400 tax break (?) per child amounts to approximately $1.10 per day. What do they get the child for that? A candy bar?
Civil war is a foregone impossibily even if people weren't apathetic. What would be used: sticks knives handguns against the military arsenal?
BTW, are we aware that depleted uranium weapons, once used, shatter and create an airborne dust which is toxic to people, plants, etc for unknown, untold periods of time?