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05/11/2006: "They Get You Coming and Going"
USA Today reports that the NSA is logging millions of phone calls made within the US as part of the wiretapping program. Several phone companies are working on this, including Verizon, Bell South and AT&T. I would encourage everyone to stop doing business with these companies. Let them know that your privacy is not for sale. And congrats to Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) for speaking out against the program again. “Are you telling me that tens of millions of Americans are involved with Al Qaida?” he asked today. Adding: “Shame on us [Congress] for being so far behind and being so willing to rubber stamp anything this administration does . . . We ought to fold our tents.”
The House also voted recently to extend the Bush tax cuts, and the feeling is that it will be a slam-dunk to breeze through the Senate along party lines. When will this deficit spending finally end? According to a joint study by the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, taxpayers with incomes greater than $1 million a year will receive a tax cut of $42,000 under the bill (4.6%), while families with incomes of $50,000 a year would net a sweet, sweet $46 tax cut (.09%). Have you ever met someone who makes $1,000,000/yr.? Probably not. Which means: you and everybody you know are getting nothing through this bill, while the richest 3% are laughing all the way to the bank.
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