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If Republicans are so angry at Lula Mae Washington in New Orleans recieving food stamps and trading them for?

beer and cigarettes, why are they not more concerned with tax laws that allow corporate CEO's to pay themselves in stock options which are taxed at 15% without any Social Security Tax while the employees paid ordinary income tax? I admit that there are many people like Lula Mae Washington and they do cost us some money. Hell, I had food stamps once and traded them for favors from a hooker in the French Quarter. I'm sure she traded them for cocaine or rent money. The point is that the money lost to me and Lula Mae is nothing compared to the tax loopholes that the very wealthy enjoy and the Republican anger is misplaced. I admit that I should not have traded food stamps that I didn't need to a hooker and that Lula Mae really shouldn't trade hers for Thunderbird Wine. But if we are going to fix the problem of tax shortfalls, budget deficit and national debt, its going to require more than locking Lula Mae and I up in the New Orleans Parish jail.

Public Comments

1. Because tax cuts and loopholes for the rich is the only real agenda that republicans have. If they were to go against those things too, they would be the party of "no to everything and anything". To be honest though, Social Security taxes are only on the first $90k or so of your income. Everything you earn over that is free and clear of being taxed for SS. If congress had never put the limit on your annual income that could be taxed for SS, the SS fund would be self sustaining for another 200 years right now.