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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 05:31 PM
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WTF???? New Orleans floods and Congress Passes Tax Cuts????
House, Senate pass tax cuts aimed at Katrina victims
Other hurricane disaster relief legislation pending



WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House and Senate each passed tax cut bills Thursday aimed at helping victims of Hurricane Katrina as government money continues to flow in response to the devastation.

The tax cuts are designed to give people affected by the hurricane easier access to their retirement savings and to encourage charitable giving, among other incentives aimed at easing suffering from Katrina. Each chamber passed its bill by a voice


http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/15/katrina.washington.ap/index.html
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HawkerHurricane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-15-05 05:58 PM
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1. If they had passed the tax cuts before the Hurricane...
then instead of flooding, it just would have 'trickled down', and New Orleans wouldn't have been destroyed.:crazy:
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