proteinwisdom.com - 3/21/2009
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Forget for a moment that the legislation to tax back the bonuses from AIG is a Bill of Attainder.
Forget that Bills of Attainder are prohibited by the Constitution. That part is of course easy to forget..Congress gave up on it long ago.
Forget that its also unconstitutional as an illegal ...
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 3/20/2009
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krugman.blogs.nytimes.com —
Preliminary thoughts on the tax bill: 1. It's
not the way you should make policy - it's...
clumsy, and it will punish some innocent parties while letting the most guilty off scot-free 2. But - there wasn't much alternative at this point. And for that I ...
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sweetness-light.com - 3/21/2009
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sweetness-light.com —
From New York Magazine: Busload of Crazies to
Tour Homes of AIG Executives This Weekend 3/20/09 Less...
than a year ago, the most repellent area bus tour we knew of was the one that induced Sex and the City–crazed tourists to put $40 on their Citi ...
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ACORN Behind ‘Protests’ At AIG Homes
newser.com - 3/18/2009
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newser.com —
What is Newser? Face it: there's too much
news. At Newser, we choose the most important stories...
from hundreds of US and international sources and reduce them to a headline, picture, and two paragraphs. And we do it 24/7 you can come back morning, ...
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THEY CAME FOR THE A.I.G. BONUSES, but I was not an A.I.G. employeee . . . ….
Instapundit —
THEY CAME FOR THE A.I.G. BONUSES, but I was not an A.I.G. employeee . . . .
AIG executives are not the Communists of Liberal Fascism
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
I realize it would be unreasonable to expect a Protein Wisdom contributor to appreciate the subtlety of what I'm about to say here, but comparing the taxation of publicly-funded corporate bonuses to the evolution of Nazism makes you sound like an historically illiterate jagoff. That Martin Niemoller is usually quoted by people who know utterly nothing about his life does not make his poem any less poignant or instructive; one supposes, however, that the pastor would not have wished to see his words used to buttress half-baked slippery-slope arguments drawn up by aspiring ...
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corner.nationalreview.com 3/19/2009 — I usually agree with the guys at Clusterstock, but I think they're wrong about the AIG bonuses -- though at least they've actually thought about the problem for longer than it takes to churn out a press release containing the word "outrageous"
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politico.com 3/19/2009 —
For all that the AIG bonuses have given all sides grand new opportunities for posturing, all involved have been, at times, a bit uncertain of their footing.
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org 3/16/2009 —
You would think that executives at a company that’s so poorly managed that it requires vast government aid wouldn’t be getting big bonuses but apparently not :
An official in the Obama administration said Saturday that Treasury ...
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