From here:
Well, while I read that this was a possibility this morning, if you had asked me two weeks ago if something like this would ever happen I would have laughed. In your face. I'm preemptively ashamed of my presumed behavior.Spurred by anger over A.I.G. bonuses, the House voted 328 to 93 to levy a 90 percent tax on any company accepting
more than $5 billion in bailout money.
In one sign of the issue’s political potency, 85 Republicans joined 243 Democrats in voting for the measure rather than for a rival proposal put forth by the Republican leadership. Only 6 Democrats voted against the bill, along with 87 Republicans.
But is this a good idea? Are we paying Peter to rob... Peter? Do we giveth with one hand and taketh away with the other? Do we care?
If you're anti-tax, is this two wrongs making a right or two wrongs making a wrong?
Thoughts?