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| Last Edited | RP May 22, 2006 01:44pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Madison Capital Times |
| News Date | Saturday, May 20, 2006 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | In the constitutionally mandated order of succession, House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., is two heartbeats away from the presidency.
Unfortunately, Hastert is also two bricks short of a load.
During Wednesday evening's debate on the House budget proposal, Hastert, who famously proposed bulldozing New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina hit, announced that working families should not be looking for any tax breaks.
Why? Because Hastert does not think that working families pay taxes.
The speaker explained on the House floor that "well, folks, if you earn $40,000 a year and have a family of two, you don't pay any taxes. So you probably if you don't pay any taxes, you are not going to get a big tax cut. Now, if you earn $1 million a year, you are going to pay about $400,000 of taxes. Maybe you'll get a $40,000 tax cut ..." |
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