Congress moves to bail out newspapers - and regulate just a little of what they print

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That's what I was saying a few weeks ago, about a plan to retroactively and punitively tax people receiving bonuses.

Oops.

It may yet be dead in the water.

WASHINGTON — The White House said Sunday that using tax law to pry bonuses from bailed-out company executives is "a dangerous way to go" and a Republican senator advised against Congress "grabbing its pitchforks and charging up the hill" in pursuit of the cash.

While acknowledging public outrage over $165 million in bonuses paid by a financial firm that had turned to taxpayers for aid, the administration's economic advisers said President Barack Obama wouldn't "govern out of anger."

 

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Only "conservatives" could see any merit in rewarding people who've failed.

(See: George Bush; 2004)

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Sure, sure, liberals, on the other hand, never advocate any reward for those who don't produce.

Do they now?