Enjoying That Tax Cut?
Feb 11th, 2006 at 5:08 pm by Susie
I could swear Jesus said something about feeding the poor, but that’s superceded by the Republican commandments - especially the one about tax cuts for the already rich:
WASHINGTON (AP) - The boxes arrive every month at churches, senior citizen centers and other sites for distribution to nearly a half-million poor elderly people. Each is stocked with a mix of nutritious foods such as cereal, peanut butter, fruit, vegetables and pasta. Sometimes volunteers deliver them right to people’s homes.
Now President Bush wants to eliminate the program, one of 141 federal initiatives that his proposed new budget would scrap or cut dramatically. He is proposing to shift people in the Commodity Supplemental Food Program over to food stamps. Defenders of the nutrition-in-a-box program say many elderly people are reluctant to sign up for food stamps, and, in any event, the commodity program often provides a more generous package.
“It really does come under the category, in the most extreme way, of balancing the budget on the backs of those who are most needy. And in this case we’re not even balancing the budget,” said Wisconsin Sen. Herb Kohl, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Appropriations agriculture subcommittee. “I call it misplaced priorities. How do you justify doing something like this, while at the same time giving people like Herb Kohl huge tax cuts?” said Kohl, a multimillionaire.
you ever get the impression they put in really absurd stuff so that the mildly absurd stuff will get passed?
I don’t think Jesus said though that it was the role of Ceaser to force others to be generous to the poor.
For that would not be a moral act, that would merely be imposing morality.
James, I think you’re probably right. Bush’s Social Security proposal in teh budget was likely a feint for other valuable programs that will be stripped from the budget such as this one.
Rick, I’d rather the government use my tax dollars to be generous to the poor rather than blow them up.
Rick it makes me sick and angry that money is taken from my pay and used to kill, torture,maim,repress, and destroy the lives of others. Some one elses morality or lack there of is being imposed on me!