Reps delaying EITC

Max Sawicky sawicky at epinet.org
Wed Sep 15 08:21:19 PDT 1999


According to NPR yesterday afternoon, the Congress has already done $27 billion in 'emergency' spending this summer and more is expected. Emergencies like the census that nobody could be expected to see coming.

[Emergency spending doesn't count against the caps.]
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Quite right. But even this is not enough to bail them out. As the 'emergency' number grows, the manifest idiocy quotient increases much more rapidly.

mbs



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