Taxing the bonuses is directly against the U. S Constitution. This should give us plenty to raise hell about! Article 1 Section 9 paragraph 3 provides that “No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law will be passed.”

This is further reinforced by U.S. v. Brown 81 U.S. 437, 440 (1967) which specifically addressed this issue. Judge Rehnquist defined a bill of attainder as an legislative act that singled out one or more persons and imposed punishment on them, without benefit of trial. What else can this be, but a punishment of individual persons, and ex post facto, after the fact, in addition.

It goes to show that the United States Constitution is meaningless to those who have sworn to uphold it.