Remember the low-income tax credits the House Republicans don't want to give to people who need it? The ones which would probably stimulate the economy, since people who are broke spend money, while people who are wealthy save it?
Both the House and Senate have passed bills to extend the credits to the low-income families, but many senators have said they cannot accept the extra tax cuts in the House version, which would add about $82 billion to the deficit in the next decade. Thus, the two bills have stalled; a conference committee supposed to work out the differences has never met.
Some of you may recall that Tucker Carlson of "Crossfire" said that if Hillary Clinton's book sold a million copies, he'd eat his shoes. Well, it has. She showed up on the set of the program yesterday with a cake in the shape of a shoe. That's amusing, but what really caught my eye was the list of suggested topics the reader might want to follow using the Times' subscription news tracker service (you suggest topics; it will send you an e-mail with links to stories pertaining to those topics). The list included Senator Clinton, Books and Literature, Simon and Schuster (the publisher), and...Bakeries and Baked Products.
My first Liberian scam letter arrived today.
Posted by Linkmeister at July 10, 2003 03:41 PM