re: #228 soxfan4life

And if it is such an important item why shouldn’t everyone pay? Strictly a money grab and some of these people should face prison sentences longer than Madoff, after all he didn’t force anyone to buy into his scheme.

I’m sure you’re right and there’s some money grabbing going on in this bill— like in every bill, esp large ones rammed through congress.

I don’t think it bothers me that the bottom 20% in terms of income will see a tiny benefit of 40 dollars a year— assuming this chart even winds up being accurate.

And it should be noted that there is a gross cost of 425 per year to that bottom quintile— it’s only after all the deductions etc that it works out to a savings of 40 bucks a year.

Again, this is only assuming the CBO got it right. Which, frankly, who the hell knows?