President Obama seems to believe that most of his sweeping agenda to transform the country can be accomplished without even a vote of Congress.
By Phil Kerpen - FOXNews.com
While Congress considers sweeping new legislation to permanently institutionalize the bailouts and federal control of our financial system (right on the heels of their health care takeover, of course) several other sweeping power grabs are going on outside the spotlight of legislative debate. Indeed President Obama seems to believe that most of his sweeping agenda to transform the country can be accomplished without even a vote of Congress. The chart seen below and found at www.ObamaChart.com shows what the administration is up to.
Obama has a pattern of sidestepping Congress that will only get worse in the aftermath of the health care fight and the pending financial “reform” legislation. For a full explanation of all of these threats as well as action items on how to stop them, please check out the interactive version of the chart on www.ObamaChart.com.
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Monday, April 12, 2010
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
The Top 5 Disasters in the Democrats' Reconciliation Bill
Don't be fooled. The bill before the Senate today does not clean up or complete the new health care law.
By Phil Kerpen - FOXNews.com
The Reconciliation Act of 2010 is a disastrous, anti-growth tax hike bill. If this were any other year, it would be by far the year's worst piece of legislation. This bill is once-a-decade bad, but unfortunately overshadowed by the all-time bad affront to personal freedom and fiscal sanity the president signed into law yesterday.
First and worst, the bill hikes the investment tax on capital gains and dividends. That’s the most anti-growth tax hike possible. The Reconciliation Act creates a new 3.8 percent Medicare tax on single filers over $200,000 and married filers over $250,000. The rich? Not quite. This slams business owners and makes it harder for them to raise capital for needed equipment purchases, expansion, and job creation. And there is no inflation indexing, so it will directly hit more and more taxpayers over time.
Investment taxes are especially inappropriate as a “pay-for”; that’s because every capital gains hike has actually lowered revenues due to the economic damage and behavioral changes it caused.
Second, the reconciliation bill makes the business assault of the new health care law much worse. It raises the penalty on employers from $750 per uncovered employee to $2,000.
Third, the bill takes over the private aspects of the student loan industry, putting tens of thousands out of work in the private sector while building up a big new student loan bureaucracy. And this is supposed to happen by next semester, so you can expect lots of headaches for students in the short term as well the long-term costs of bigger government.
Fourth, the "fix" to the Cadillac tax actually makes it worse. Under current law the exemption amount is indexed to CPI plus 1 percent. That’s is already not a high enough inflation bar to keep up with medical costs. The reconciliation bill delays the start of the tax by five years, from 2013 to 2018, but it cuts the inflation adjustment to plain CPI. The lower inflation adjustment means this tax will hit more people faster.
Finally, the Nebraska "fix" (the only one of the infamous and corrupt deals Obama signed into law yesterday that’s actually revisited in the reconciliation) is now a much worse deal for taxpayers. Nebraska no longer gets special treatment, but the new Medicaid funding formula puts federal taxpayers on the hook for 90 percent of the cost of expansion for all states, with special funding increases for 17 states and the District of Columbia. This is welfare reform in reverse; we should be building on the AFDC block-grant model of state control and innovation that worked so well in the 1990s, not federalizing Medicaid.
The bottom line: the bill does not clean up or complete the new health care law. It should be judged on its own extremely dubious merits and the Senate should vote no.
Mr. Kerpen is vice president for policy at Americans for Prosperity. He can be reached on Twitter, Facebook, and through www.PhilKerpen.com.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/03/24/phil-kerpen-obama-health-care-reconciliation-senate-nebraska/
By Phil Kerpen - FOXNews.com
The Reconciliation Act of 2010 is a disastrous, anti-growth tax hike bill. If this were any other year, it would be by far the year's worst piece of legislation. This bill is once-a-decade bad, but unfortunately overshadowed by the all-time bad affront to personal freedom and fiscal sanity the president signed into law yesterday.
First and worst, the bill hikes the investment tax on capital gains and dividends. That’s the most anti-growth tax hike possible. The Reconciliation Act creates a new 3.8 percent Medicare tax on single filers over $200,000 and married filers over $250,000. The rich? Not quite. This slams business owners and makes it harder for them to raise capital for needed equipment purchases, expansion, and job creation. And there is no inflation indexing, so it will directly hit more and more taxpayers over time.
Investment taxes are especially inappropriate as a “pay-for”; that’s because every capital gains hike has actually lowered revenues due to the economic damage and behavioral changes it caused.
Second, the reconciliation bill makes the business assault of the new health care law much worse. It raises the penalty on employers from $750 per uncovered employee to $2,000.
Third, the bill takes over the private aspects of the student loan industry, putting tens of thousands out of work in the private sector while building up a big new student loan bureaucracy. And this is supposed to happen by next semester, so you can expect lots of headaches for students in the short term as well the long-term costs of bigger government.
Fourth, the "fix" to the Cadillac tax actually makes it worse. Under current law the exemption amount is indexed to CPI plus 1 percent. That’s is already not a high enough inflation bar to keep up with medical costs. The reconciliation bill delays the start of the tax by five years, from 2013 to 2018, but it cuts the inflation adjustment to plain CPI. The lower inflation adjustment means this tax will hit more people faster.
Finally, the Nebraska "fix" (the only one of the infamous and corrupt deals Obama signed into law yesterday that’s actually revisited in the reconciliation) is now a much worse deal for taxpayers. Nebraska no longer gets special treatment, but the new Medicaid funding formula puts federal taxpayers on the hook for 90 percent of the cost of expansion for all states, with special funding increases for 17 states and the District of Columbia. This is welfare reform in reverse; we should be building on the AFDC block-grant model of state control and innovation that worked so well in the 1990s, not federalizing Medicaid.
The bottom line: the bill does not clean up or complete the new health care law. It should be judged on its own extremely dubious merits and the Senate should vote no.
Mr. Kerpen is vice president for policy at Americans for Prosperity. He can be reached on Twitter, Facebook, and through www.PhilKerpen.com.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/03/24/phil-kerpen-obama-health-care-reconciliation-senate-nebraska/
Monday, March 8, 2010
Forget Reconciliation - the fight is in the House
Never matter what the ObamaCare addicts call it -- reconciliation, nuclear option, or "a simple majority", the Senate isn't where the action will be. The action will happen in the House.
As AFP Policy Director Phil Kerpen wrote on FoxNews.com:
Ultimately, it doesn't matter whether or not the Senate passes changes to its health care bill via reconciliation. That's because the reconciliation process cannot even begin until after the House passes the Senate bill exactly as it passed the Senate on Christmas Eve. That means it must pass with the abortion language already rejected by Rep. Bart Stupak and others still intact. It also must pass with the outrageous pork barrel spending deals cut for Nebraska, Louisiana, Connecticut, and others. In other words, the bill must pass the House with everything in it that the American people have already made clear they hate.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/03/04/phil-kerpen-obama-health-care-reconciliation-house-senate-fight-vote/
As AFP Policy Director Phil Kerpen wrote on FoxNews.com:
Ultimately, it doesn't matter whether or not the Senate passes changes to its health care bill via reconciliation. That's because the reconciliation process cannot even begin until after the House passes the Senate bill exactly as it passed the Senate on Christmas Eve. That means it must pass with the abortion language already rejected by Rep. Bart Stupak and others still intact. It also must pass with the outrageous pork barrel spending deals cut for Nebraska, Louisiana, Connecticut, and others. In other words, the bill must pass the House with everything in it that the American people have already made clear they hate.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/03/04/phil-kerpen-obama-health-care-reconciliation-house-senate-fight-vote/
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
AFP's Phil Kerpen reveals Van Jones has resurfaced
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/02/22/phil-kerpen-van-jones-comeback-green-jobs-obama/
Updated February 22, 2010
Van Jones Returns
A speech in New Hampshire appears to be just the beginning of former green jobs czar Van Jones's comeback tour. But his environmental advocacy can't be separated from his political extremism.
By Phil Kerpen - FOXNews.com
Anthony K. “Van” Jones has surfaced. The disgraced former White House special green jobs adviser is making an appearance at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire tonight, apparently at the request of Democratic State Senate Majority Leader Maggie Hassan. Exeter promotes the event saying: “globally recognized, Jones will lead an evening talk and discussion about ‘green jobs. ’” This is just the start of his comeback tour; on March 8, Jones will again appear at a Democratic “green jobs” event, in New York with U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. That otherwise respectable people would come to “green jobs” events with Van Jones suggests that his “green jobs” advocacy is somehow separable from his political extremism. It isn’t.
Van Jones is a self-professed communist. In 2005 he explained his radicalization following the Rodney King verdict to the alternative San Francisco newspaper the East Bay Express: “I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th. By August, I was a communist.” He went on to say that he had changed only his means, not his objectives: “I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.”
In April of 2008 Jones explained to “Uprising Radio” that his push for green jobs was the kernel of a broader movement to destroy our capitalist economic system: “Inside that minimum demand was a very radical kernel that eventually meant that from 1964 to 1968 complete revolution was on the table for this country. And, I think that this green movement has to pursue those same steps and stages. Right now we say we want to move from suicidal gray capitalism to something eco-capitalism where at least we're not fast-tracking the destruction of the whole planet. Will that be enough? No, it won't be enough. We want to go beyond the systems of exploitation and oppression altogether.”
Jones eventually resigned in disgrace from the White House, too radical even for the Obama administration that wants government control of health care, energy, and Wall Street.
Now Jones is back peddling that same kernel of the destruction of our free-market economy, starting tonight at Exeter, an elite boarding school.
While “green jobs” programs don’t create job growth, the verdict from Europe is that they are, unfortunately, deadly effective at laying the seeds of destruction of our market system. A trio of compelling studies from the Houston-based Institute for Energy Research reveals the facts.
In Germany, per worker subsidies for the solar industry now top $240K. The price of electricity has jumped 2.2 cents per kilowatt-hour, a 19.4% increase relative to average U.S. prices. In Denmark wind subsidies cost taxpayers $376M a year. Each Danish “green job” costs taxpayers $90K to $140K per year, which is 175-percent of country's average manufacturing wage. Despite all these subsidies, Denmark has the highest electricity prices in the European Union. Most significantly, in Spain, long touted as the model for Obama's policies, each “green job” created has destroyed on average 2.2 other jobs elsewhere in the economy. Since 2000, Spain has spent over $750K in subsidies for every “green job” created, and now has a 19.5 percent unemployment rate and is at risk of defaulting on its national debt.
The lessons from Europe are so stark that nobody can possibly believe these expensive programs will improve our economy. We know what Van Jones really believes—that economically ruinous subsidies, preferences, and make-work programs are a step towards total destruction of our free-market economy. Yet Democrats from President Obama on down continue to push “green jobs” programs. For the sake of our free market system, let’s hope they fail.
Mr. Kerpen is vice president for policy at Americans for Prosperity and was a frequent guest on Fox News Channel's “Glenn Beck” as the Van Jones scandal unfolded. He can be contacted through PhilKerpen.com.
Updated February 22, 2010
Van Jones Returns
A speech in New Hampshire appears to be just the beginning of former green jobs czar Van Jones's comeback tour. But his environmental advocacy can't be separated from his political extremism.
By Phil Kerpen - FOXNews.com
Anthony K. “Van” Jones has surfaced. The disgraced former White House special green jobs adviser is making an appearance at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire tonight, apparently at the request of Democratic State Senate Majority Leader Maggie Hassan. Exeter promotes the event saying: “globally recognized, Jones will lead an evening talk and discussion about ‘green jobs. ’” This is just the start of his comeback tour; on March 8, Jones will again appear at a Democratic “green jobs” event, in New York with U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. That otherwise respectable people would come to “green jobs” events with Van Jones suggests that his “green jobs” advocacy is somehow separable from his political extremism. It isn’t.
Van Jones is a self-professed communist. In 2005 he explained his radicalization following the Rodney King verdict to the alternative San Francisco newspaper the East Bay Express: “I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th. By August, I was a communist.” He went on to say that he had changed only his means, not his objectives: “I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.”
In April of 2008 Jones explained to “Uprising Radio” that his push for green jobs was the kernel of a broader movement to destroy our capitalist economic system: “Inside that minimum demand was a very radical kernel that eventually meant that from 1964 to 1968 complete revolution was on the table for this country. And, I think that this green movement has to pursue those same steps and stages. Right now we say we want to move from suicidal gray capitalism to something eco-capitalism where at least we're not fast-tracking the destruction of the whole planet. Will that be enough? No, it won't be enough. We want to go beyond the systems of exploitation and oppression altogether.”
Jones eventually resigned in disgrace from the White House, too radical even for the Obama administration that wants government control of health care, energy, and Wall Street.
Now Jones is back peddling that same kernel of the destruction of our free-market economy, starting tonight at Exeter, an elite boarding school.
While “green jobs” programs don’t create job growth, the verdict from Europe is that they are, unfortunately, deadly effective at laying the seeds of destruction of our market system. A trio of compelling studies from the Houston-based Institute for Energy Research reveals the facts.
In Germany, per worker subsidies for the solar industry now top $240K. The price of electricity has jumped 2.2 cents per kilowatt-hour, a 19.4% increase relative to average U.S. prices. In Denmark wind subsidies cost taxpayers $376M a year. Each Danish “green job” costs taxpayers $90K to $140K per year, which is 175-percent of country's average manufacturing wage. Despite all these subsidies, Denmark has the highest electricity prices in the European Union. Most significantly, in Spain, long touted as the model for Obama's policies, each “green job” created has destroyed on average 2.2 other jobs elsewhere in the economy. Since 2000, Spain has spent over $750K in subsidies for every “green job” created, and now has a 19.5 percent unemployment rate and is at risk of defaulting on its national debt.
The lessons from Europe are so stark that nobody can possibly believe these expensive programs will improve our economy. We know what Van Jones really believes—that economically ruinous subsidies, preferences, and make-work programs are a step towards total destruction of our free-market economy. Yet Democrats from President Obama on down continue to push “green jobs” programs. For the sake of our free market system, let’s hope they fail.
Mr. Kerpen is vice president for policy at Americans for Prosperity and was a frequent guest on Fox News Channel's “Glenn Beck” as the Van Jones scandal unfolded. He can be contacted through PhilKerpen.com.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Let the Death Tax Rest In Peace!
Updated December 02, 2009
By Phil Kerpen
- FOXNews.com
The death tax is fundamentally a moral issue. Americans do not believe that death should be a taxable event.
While the Senate is busy debating a Washington takeover of health care this week, the House will consider outrageous legislation that is getting much less attention: a bill to keep the death tax and make it permanent. The bill, H.R. 4154, would bring the death tax back to life less than a month before its scheduled repeal at the end of this calendar year.
Back in 2001 Congress repealed the death tax with a long phase-out that finally ends this year. Because of a Democratic filibuster, they could only pass the repeal temporarily, for one year in 2010, before the tax returns in full force in 2011. The political calculation was that once the tax finally reached repeal, it would be very difficult to bring it back, especially in an election year. That’s exactly why Democrats are now trying to make the death tax permanent now, with the clock ticking down to repeal on January 1.
The death tax is fundamentally a moral issue. Americans do not believe that death should be a taxable event. The Founders of our country believed this so strongly that they included a clause in the U.S. Constitution that forbids seizing an estate at death as a punishment for treason. Yet we now have a majority party that thinks it’s appropriate to take up to 45 percent of everything a person leaves to his children as a punishment for success, for achieving the American Dream.
The death tax punishes virtue and rewards vice. It tells older Americans: "You can't take it with you, and you can't leave it to your kids." So it discourages the traditional American virtues of hard work and thrift, savings, and investment, while it encourages lavish, reckless consumption.
Morality aside, the tax is bad economics. A new study conducted by former Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin for the American Family Business Foundation quantifies the economic damage wrought by the death tax, finding that repealing the tax would create 1.5 million new small business jobs. Dr. Holtz-Eakin found that repealing the tax would increase small business capital by more than $1.6 trillion, expand payrolls by 2.6 percent, and shave 0.9 percent from the unemployment rate.
With numbers like that, repealing the death tax should be at the top of the “jobs agenda” for the White House and Congress. Instead we see a rush to reverse the scheduled repeal and keep the tax permanently. It’s not because of the cost—the tax is almost certainly a net revenue loser for the federal government, with many studies showing that the revenue increases from other taxes would more than offset the costs of full and permanent death tax repeal.
The only real winners in the push for H.R. 4154 to keep the death tax permanently are the life insurance industry, which makes a fortune selling life insurance policies to families who have no other way to pay the tax without losing the family business. A study by Palmer Schoening of the American Family Business Foundation found that the life insurance industry books about $15 billion a year in premium revenue as a result of the death tax, and has spent upwards of $22 million this year alone lobbying Congress to keep the death tax. They also made hefty campaign contributions to all of the key players, including House Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel of New York and Earl Pomeroy, the North Dakota Congressman who is the lead sponsor of H.R. 4154.
The bottom line is the death tax is morally and economically bankrupt, and the effort to keep it permanently, when we are just weeks from it finally being repealed, must be defeated. With all the taxes being proposed lately it sometimes feels like Washington wants to tax us to death. They should at least be so kind as to allow death itself not to be a taxable event.
Mr. Kerpen is director of policy for Americans for Prosperity. He can be contacted through Phil Kerpen.com. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. His free two-minute Podcast is available daily.
By Phil Kerpen
- FOXNews.com
The death tax is fundamentally a moral issue. Americans do not believe that death should be a taxable event.
While the Senate is busy debating a Washington takeover of health care this week, the House will consider outrageous legislation that is getting much less attention: a bill to keep the death tax and make it permanent. The bill, H.R. 4154, would bring the death tax back to life less than a month before its scheduled repeal at the end of this calendar year.
Back in 2001 Congress repealed the death tax with a long phase-out that finally ends this year. Because of a Democratic filibuster, they could only pass the repeal temporarily, for one year in 2010, before the tax returns in full force in 2011. The political calculation was that once the tax finally reached repeal, it would be very difficult to bring it back, especially in an election year. That’s exactly why Democrats are now trying to make the death tax permanent now, with the clock ticking down to repeal on January 1.
The death tax is fundamentally a moral issue. Americans do not believe that death should be a taxable event. The Founders of our country believed this so strongly that they included a clause in the U.S. Constitution that forbids seizing an estate at death as a punishment for treason. Yet we now have a majority party that thinks it’s appropriate to take up to 45 percent of everything a person leaves to his children as a punishment for success, for achieving the American Dream.
The death tax punishes virtue and rewards vice. It tells older Americans: "You can't take it with you, and you can't leave it to your kids." So it discourages the traditional American virtues of hard work and thrift, savings, and investment, while it encourages lavish, reckless consumption.
Morality aside, the tax is bad economics. A new study conducted by former Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin for the American Family Business Foundation quantifies the economic damage wrought by the death tax, finding that repealing the tax would create 1.5 million new small business jobs. Dr. Holtz-Eakin found that repealing the tax would increase small business capital by more than $1.6 trillion, expand payrolls by 2.6 percent, and shave 0.9 percent from the unemployment rate.
With numbers like that, repealing the death tax should be at the top of the “jobs agenda” for the White House and Congress. Instead we see a rush to reverse the scheduled repeal and keep the tax permanently. It’s not because of the cost—the tax is almost certainly a net revenue loser for the federal government, with many studies showing that the revenue increases from other taxes would more than offset the costs of full and permanent death tax repeal.
The only real winners in the push for H.R. 4154 to keep the death tax permanently are the life insurance industry, which makes a fortune selling life insurance policies to families who have no other way to pay the tax without losing the family business. A study by Palmer Schoening of the American Family Business Foundation found that the life insurance industry books about $15 billion a year in premium revenue as a result of the death tax, and has spent upwards of $22 million this year alone lobbying Congress to keep the death tax. They also made hefty campaign contributions to all of the key players, including House Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel of New York and Earl Pomeroy, the North Dakota Congressman who is the lead sponsor of H.R. 4154.
The bottom line is the death tax is morally and economically bankrupt, and the effort to keep it permanently, when we are just weeks from it finally being repealed, must be defeated. With all the taxes being proposed lately it sometimes feels like Washington wants to tax us to death. They should at least be so kind as to allow death itself not to be a taxable event.
Mr. Kerpen is director of policy for Americans for Prosperity. He can be contacted through Phil Kerpen.com. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. His free two-minute Podcast is available daily.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Phil Kerpen addresses RightOnLine
Kerpen is Policy Director for AFP and columnist.
Our numbers are up, NetRootsNation numbers are down - we have the momentum on our side.
We at AFP didn't manufacture anger. George Sorus, who funds the Left, has a manufactured memo claiming that we are manufacturing "grassroots." They are demeaning real Americans who are concerned about the Left trying to control our lives.
The Stimulus bill money is slow going out as it is politicized.
We are doing a great job attacking the public option (as we know that is socialized medicine)...and if they take the public option out, it won't e socialist but will be Facist. Government can contrtol it even if it isn't a public plan.
We are also winning on Cap and Trade - four Senate members don't want a vote this year, 9 Democrats don't want Wall Street to benefit - they are fractured... but they 210 to 212 squeaked the House vote. We need Senators aaying to leadership - sorry, but I can't do that in our state.
Are we an industry front? No - industry has carved on these bills. The White House has bought off 85% of the permits to get it passed in the House.
On health care, when the public potion is out, we will be forced to buy industry prducts financed with our tax dollars. MSNBC talks about industry groups behind us - but drug companies are advertising on MSNBC, and the reports just don't get it.
Kerpen also talked about censorship of the Internet - new version HR 3458 is a regulation of the Internet which kills private investment. Do we want the government running the Internet? we must protect our freedom on the INternet.
Hold firm on Health Care and on Cap and Trade - we can defeat the Left.
follow Phil on PhilKerpen.com
Our numbers are up, NetRootsNation numbers are down - we have the momentum on our side.
We at AFP didn't manufacture anger. George Sorus, who funds the Left, has a manufactured memo claiming that we are manufacturing "grassroots." They are demeaning real Americans who are concerned about the Left trying to control our lives.
The Stimulus bill money is slow going out as it is politicized.
We are doing a great job attacking the public option (as we know that is socialized medicine)...and if they take the public option out, it won't e socialist but will be Facist. Government can contrtol it even if it isn't a public plan.
We are also winning on Cap and Trade - four Senate members don't want a vote this year, 9 Democrats don't want Wall Street to benefit - they are fractured... but they 210 to 212 squeaked the House vote. We need Senators aaying to leadership - sorry, but I can't do that in our state.
Are we an industry front? No - industry has carved on these bills. The White House has bought off 85% of the permits to get it passed in the House.
On health care, when the public potion is out, we will be forced to buy industry prducts financed with our tax dollars. MSNBC talks about industry groups behind us - but drug companies are advertising on MSNBC, and the reports just don't get it.
Kerpen also talked about censorship of the Internet - new version HR 3458 is a regulation of the Internet which kills private investment. Do we want the government running the Internet? we must protect our freedom on the INternet.
Hold firm on Health Care and on Cap and Trade - we can defeat the Left.
follow Phil on PhilKerpen.com
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Obama taxes every aspect of our lives
Obama’s cap and trade will be the largest tax bill in history. And everyone will be hit. It won’t just hit us at the gas pump. We’ll pay more for everything from electricity to food.
Read about it here: http://www.americansforprosperity.org/022709-obamas-energy-tax
Read about it here: http://www.americansforprosperity.org/022709-obamas-energy-tax
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Obama: promises broken
With one stroke of his pen, Obama is set to break promises -- and break hearts. What a disappointment for Obama lovers everywhere. Americans for Prosperity's policy expert, Phil Kerpen, writes on Fox News Forum:
http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/03/11/kerpen_obama_omnibus/
Yes, Obama is set to sign a notoriously pork-filled bill –the so-called “omnibus” or “porknibus” bill, stuffed with at least $7.7 billion of wasteful pork-barrel earmarks, including such vital national priorities as swine odor research in Iowa and Harry Reid’s beloved Las Vegas Natural History Museum.
The swine odor research may be needed in Washington, D.C., not just in Iowa.
http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/03/11/kerpen_obama_omnibus/
Yes, Obama is set to sign a notoriously pork-filled bill –the so-called “omnibus” or “porknibus” bill, stuffed with at least $7.7 billion of wasteful pork-barrel earmarks, including such vital national priorities as swine odor research in Iowa and Harry Reid’s beloved Las Vegas Natural History Museum.
The swine odor research may be needed in Washington, D.C., not just in Iowa.
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