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talkleft.com - 10/1/2008
Say No To The Senate Bailout Bill
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As someone who supported the defeated House mortgage/credit crisis Wall Street Bailout, this may come as a surprise, but I oppose the Senate Bailout bill to be voted on today . Why? Because it includes irresponsible sops to the Republicans, corporate tax breaks: Top lawmakers said the Senate ...

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The Moderate Voice — ... of Columbia (Sec. 322) - Wool Research (Sec. 325) How small the federal government seems when its business includes trivia like wooden arrows… but even more to the point, this stuff has no place in an emergency bailout bill. If this was the only vehicle the Senate could find to enable them to vote, they should have waited. And it isn’t just conservatives who are going to find some issues. Here’s Big Tent Democrat, at Talk Left: And the idea of giving more corporate tax breaks and suspending the ...

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