Posts Tagged ‘bill’
First, the obvious: Per Eric Holder, the new hate crimes bill was not intended to protect everyone equally under the law. I got a problem with that. The ONLY intent of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights is to insure everyone is protected equally by the law. For the US Attorney General to [...]
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September 25th, 2009 | No Comments
Hassan Nemazee has been charged with all kinds of stuff of late. Basically, it’s now a charge of running a $292 million pyramid scheme. Not terribly sure how that’s different than Bernie Madoff’s ponzi scheme. But, I don’t really care. What I do care is Nancy Pelosi assuring everyone that all Republicans were corrupt, and [...]
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Here’s the story: The AFL-CIO labor union has a new tax in mind. Specifically, the union wants to apply a small tax — a tenth of 1 percent — on every stock transaction. The tax would especially target firms that use so-called high-frequency trading, which uses technology to oversee many transactions in the blink of [...]
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“[Such bills] will not happen when the president has the full legislative and appropriations process in place,” Peter Orszag, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, told CNN’s “State of the Union with John King.” He argued that the White House had little choice but to support the $410 billion omnibus spending [...]
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