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An Important Vote You May Have Missed
May 16, 2008 - by Donny ShawThe House held a vote this week that crystalizes an often-discussed belief held by many Democrats: that wealthy Americans should do more to help those who are struggling.
The proposal was to institute a surtax on the wealthy – 0.47 percent on any income above $500,000 earned by an individual and on income above $1 million for couples – in exchange for an expansion of education benefits for soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Also included in the proposal was a 13-week extension of unemployment insurance benefits, international food assistance, money for levee reconstruction in New Orleans, and more (more details here).
The vote came on the third and final section of the emergency supplemental war funding bill, itself an amendment to an unrelated appropriations bill. It’s Confusing stuff, and it’s hard to identify in the vote records. But since it was such an ideologically polarizing vote, I want to make sure people can find out how their representative voted, despite all the confusion (it didn’t go down straight along party lines – there were defections from both sides of the aisle).
Click here to see how your representative voted.
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Why would we do this when the GDP tax from England was nearly passed and a new bill comes out to tax the wealthy for foreign aid because dems were taxing the poor(GDP/GNP)for foreign aid?
(9) At the summit of the Group of Eight (G-8) nations in July 2005, leaders from all eight participating countries committed to increase aid to Africa from the current $25,000,000,000 annually to $50,000,000,000 by 2010, and to cancel 100 percent of the debt obligations owed to the World Bank, African Development Bank, and International Monetary Fund by 18 of the world’s poorest nations.
An Important Vote “I” May Have Missed???
You want to know the vote(s) I miss…the votes brought forward on the most critical issues in referendum where the citizenry gets to vote an issue up or down instead of this damned
oligarchy of 535 people that have all but taken U S citizens out of our constitutional mandated political involvement.
Government and politics are no longer matters of “We the People.” Government and politics has been stolen away from the citizenry by an oligarchy of 535 “We the few who rule over all.”
We the people don’t even have the vote power remaining to vote on or for “term limitations.” That power too has been stolen and lies in the hands of the congress itself; both houses that obviously have no intentions of giving up or cede one fragment of their power period, which term limitation would indeed do.
Government power in the hands of the corrupt states that with their powers to make law they can and have “kidnapped justice and hidden it within the law.” And there is not one thing legally that can be done now to stop them unless the honest among the elect get off their butts and take action against the corrupt among them.