Thursday, February 19, 2009

Thanks to Stimulus Bill The Rich are Getting Richer

The Stimulus bill, over 1100 pages long, was passed by Congress a few short hours after being put together by the handpicked minions of Sen. Reid and Congresswoman Pelosi. Despite a promise to post the bill for public review for at least 48 hours before voting, and without any time allowed for your representatives in Congress to even read the entire bill, the liberal rulers rushed the vote and passed the most egregious expansion of Federal control ever.

Now we begin to see just who is really going to benefit from the Stimulus Bill, aka Porkulus. Today's lucky winner is the Great Federal Government Give-away of 2009 is none other than the cofounder of Microsoft, Paul Allen.

Billionaire Paul Allen is a Microsoft cofounder, the owner of the NFL's Seattle Seahawks and the owner of the NBA's Portland Trailblazers.

And, thanks to the stimulus bill President Obama signed this week, he's also about to be as much as a billion dollars richer.

Here's how:
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Paul Allen is going to be able to avoid paying almost a billion dollars in taxes and will be investing that money to make even more money.

In the meantime, the rest of us are waiting to see just how much providing such benefits to the rich is going to cost us, our children and our grandchildren.