Senate Bailout Bill Contains Pork For Race Tracks, Rum
The Senate is getting ready to vote on a bailout bill tonight, but if that bill passes Americans won’t just be shelling out hundreds of millions of dollars for the bailout itself. They’ll be shelling out for some pork for race tracks and rum too.
New Tax earmarks in Bailout bill
- Film and Television Productions (Sec. 502)
- Wooden Arrows designed for use by children (Sec. 503)
- 6 page package of earmarks for litigants in the 1989 Exxon Valdez incident, Alaska (Sec. 504)Tax earmark “extenders” in the bailout bill.
- Virgin Island and Puerto Rican Rum (Section 308)
- American Samoa (Sec. 309)
- Mine Rescue Teams (Sec. 310)
- Mine Safety Equipment (Sec. 311)
- Domestic Production Activities in Puerto Rico (Sec. 312)
- Indian Tribes (Sec. 314, 315)
- Railroads (Sec. 316)
- Auto Racing Tracks (317)
- District of Columbia (Sec. 322)
- Wool Research (Sec. 325)
These clowns are pretty shameless. We’re in the midst of a pitched battle over what to do about the financial markets, and these idiots are scrambling to pork up race tracks.
Because it’s not bad enough that we’d be forced to buy up loans that were stupidly given to people who couldn’t pay for them, but we have to fund some race tracks too. Which is exactly the sort of thing Thomas Jefferson and John Adams had in mind when they were defining the appropriate roles of the federal government.
