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Lower the Beer Tax!

Oh happy day! Oh joy! A favorite bill around the WashingtonWatch.com international headquarters has been reintroduced!
S. 1058 would lower the tax on beer to its pre-1991 level.
Now, I don’t know what its pre-1991 level was, but evidently it’s lower – meaning: our small, cautiously used beer fund could go just a little bit further.
It was [...]

Obama’s Pitch to Congressional Leaders – Not You: Spend $8,000 per Family

[Update: In my haste to report this to you, I deviated from the usual way costs are reported here. The figures reported below and in the title are what the stimulus would add to the national debt, not the cost per family/person as we usually report it here on WashingtonWatch.com. (See the "about" page for [...]

The Incredible, Annoying “.”

It’s always interesting to watch the comment boards, and a visitor who simply identifies him or herself as “.” is making the most of them.
“.” is going from bill to bill saying whatever he or she can to rile up other visitors and get them outraged.
On S. 505 and H.R. 549, the tax [...]