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2009-04-01 Economy

A bill to let Big Government set your salary

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Posted by Fred 2009-04-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 It occurs to me that the real target of this legislation is the defense industry, ultimately.

Posted by no mo uro 2009-04-01 07:14|| 2009-04-01 07:14|| Front Page Top

#2 This action must be viewed in Barry's perspective to be fully understood. Consider similar to Zakat, which is essentially everything that benefits Muslims or Muslim goals and of course, brings them closer to Allah.

Zakat is an institutionalized and enduring fundraising mechanism within Islam that is capable of raising considerable sums of money on an annual basis. Rough, conservative, calculations for potential zakat funds annually available for warfighting within a geographic area can be determined by computing 2.5 percent of the GDP-per capita of the employed labor force and dividing the product by eight (8). For Iraq , the annual warfare funding through zakat may be estimated at $96,500,000. For Afghanistan , $46,875,000.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-04-01 07:29|| 2009-04-01 07:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Can you set my salary at $100,000 and adjust it for inflation, Big O?

/My check's in the mail, $2,200 max, right?

Posted by Raj 2009-04-01 08:24|| 2009-04-01 08:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Government creates the problem and proposes to provide the solution. For a fee. In the $trillions. Too bad Al Capone wasn't so creative.

Posted by ed 2009-04-01 08:40|| 2009-04-01 08:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Too bad Al Capone wasn't so creative.

Protection racket by another name - create a problem then 'tax' them to hold off on its application. Capone bought local government. Back then the Feds never had the amount of power and intrusiveness we take for back ground noise today. That they got him on tax evasion [Cabinet level material there!], is also indicative how unique even federal income tax was to masses back then. Capone would be a Senator from Illinois today.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-04-01 09:13|| 2009-04-01 09:13|| Front Page Top

#6 The new legislation, the "Pay for Performance Act of 2009,"

Hmmmmmm. So if this is the new standard, I guess Congress is fucked?

Posted by tu3031 2009-04-01 10:37|| 2009-04-01 10:37|| Front Page Top

#7 Seems like a good idea for Congress tu3031--the part about Congress being fvcked. Doubt it will happen. Time for term limits. Don't leave them in long enough to steal or screw us.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-04-01 10:47|| 2009-04-01 10:47|| Front Page Top

#8 Barney Frank, has approved a measure that would, in some key ways, go beyond the most draconian features of the original AIG bill.

Speaking of slobbering idiots. Please, Massachusetts turn this guy out to pasture next time. Be patriotic and do the rest of the country a huge favor.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-04-01 10:51|| 2009-04-01 10:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Can we set congress' salary? They pay us for showing up to vote.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-04-01 11:04|| 2009-04-01 11:04|| Front Page Top

#10 They pay us for showing up to vote.

I believe that's how Murtha set up his district.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-04-01 14:05|| 2009-04-01 14:05|| Front Page Top

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