We're bailing out WHAT?

[unixronin]

From danjite:

The latest version of the "Bailout Bill" creates tax credits or benefits for:

- 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)

- Virgin Island and Puerto Rican Rum (Section 308)

- Auto Racing Tracks (317)

- Wool Research (Sec. 325)

I ain't saying nothing.

WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT, OVER

This "bailout" gets more surreal by the day.  Did someone put LSD in the Congressional coffee pot?

Comments

[jmkelly.livejournal.com]

I'm reminded of the old saying that compares law to sausage: you may like it, but you don't want to know how it's made.

Some political scientist has probably already worked out the correlation between how difficult a bill is to pass and how many weird little amendments it accretes. The "Mom and Apple Pie Veneration Act" probably sails through with no changes at all; the "Let's Actually Do Something That Requires More Than Thirty Seconds of Actual Thought Act" requires so many quid pro quos it comes out looking like a Christmas tree.