Friday, October 3, 2008

news blurb...Senate-passed "crisis" rescue plan lined with pork

from NYPost:

The special provisions includes tax breaks for:
* Manufacturers of kids' wooden arrows - $6 million.
* Puerto Rican and Virgin Is- lands rum producers - $192 million.
* Wool research.
* Auto-racing tracks - $128 million.
* Corporations operating in American Samoa - $33 million.
* Small- to medium-budget film and television productions - $10 million.

Blurbat also heard their was provision worth millions for bicycles in Oregon and something for Somoa.