If the facts don’t support your beliefs…..just lie about the facts.
Well, the Fundies have done it again, and theocracy is alive and well in the U.S. Congress.
One of the latest bills to clear the House of Representatives is a bill giving tax breaks to businesses building or re-building in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Well, they are going to give tax breaks to businesses that don’t break Fundamentalist law……No Casinos, Dog Tracks, Massage Parlors or Liquor stores need apply.
The Family Research Council website proclaims:
The root issue is rebuilding the economy of the devastated Gulf Coast, not catering tax benefits to companies that have a proven negative economic effect on even flourishing economies
Negative economic impact?? WTF are these people talking about? The Casino industry is the single largest employer on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Tax revenues from Gambling, Casino Hotels, Casino Restaurants, and Casiono Bars, amounts to Millions per DAY!! to state a local tax coffers. Tourism in South Mississippi is dependent up the Casino Industry. Did they think these little gray haired ladies were coming to see the shrimp boats?
I’ve witnessed first hand how Gulport and Biloxi have blossomed from little fishing villages to tourist destinations. Gulport has become the second largest city in Mississippi. The Casinos on the MS gulf coast created 40,000 jobs that went away after hurricane Katrina. What negative economic impact are these morons talking about?
It would be very difficult, almost impossible, to go to a town meeting sometime and say that I, or the Congress, supported giving tax breaks to rebuild a casino, a massage parlor or a liquor store. –Rep. Frank R. Wolf (R-Va.)
Yeah, what he means is that he wouldn’t be getting those big contributions from Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. I wonder how how he would react if there were a hurricane in Virginia and the tobacco industry was declared ineligible for tax breaks.
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Maybe now that DeLay isn’t in the driver seat, Casino money is less lucrative? Abramoff can’t push it and DeLay can’t lie about it and Ralph Reed is busy, so… hmm. Maybe it’s just that Native American money doesn’t count as much, disregarding the state-economy fuelling casinos.
Regardless, the miserly ways of the feds have forced the states to leverage casinos for their necessary tax income. Jobs + tax money == casinos will get theres.
hey, maybe the Saipan enslavement/forced abortion industry is open for discussion again now too