The Chicken Tax
09-02-2011, 11:36 AM
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I'm concerned about our government trying to narrow the deficit on the backs of chickens, who are systematically disenfranchised and thus underrespresented in Congress. It's species-ist.
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09-02-2011, 01:54 PM
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I looked into it, it looks like it's big unions behind this tax. They are one of the most generous contributors supporting the tax...NOT big chicken lobbying as they want you to believe.
One thing you have to remember with the chicken tax is that it requires states to tax 18.4% per lb of chicken sold, but also where they are allowed to spend the resources.
Turns out, this bill is up for renewal at the end of this fiscal year. And conservates want it to expire, but of course liberals, not wanting to "give large chicken corporations a tax break" want it to remain.
If this bill is not renewed on Sept 30th, it would not only give the states more mobility in allocating resources and setting there own taxation levels, but it would allow them to avoid federal regulations requiring them to hire union chicken farmers, gasp, that are stipulated in the law itself in how they can spend the tax dollars. By that same token, if the status quo remains the same, public sector unions will continue to remain employed and enjoy to kind of job security that you and I could only dream of owning, regardless of job performance.
big suprise!
One thing you have to remember with the chicken tax is that it requires states to tax 18.4% per lb of chicken sold, but also where they are allowed to spend the resources.
Turns out, this bill is up for renewal at the end of this fiscal year. And conservates want it to expire, but of course liberals, not wanting to "give large chicken corporations a tax break" want it to remain.
If this bill is not renewed on Sept 30th, it would not only give the states more mobility in allocating resources and setting there own taxation levels, but it would allow them to avoid federal regulations requiring them to hire union chicken farmers, gasp, that are stipulated in the law itself in how they can spend the tax dollars. By that same token, if the status quo remains the same, public sector unions will continue to remain employed and enjoy to kind of job security that you and I could only dream of owning, regardless of job performance.
big suprise!
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