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Posted: **Thu Oct 02, 2008 2:26 pm**

....is excise tax relief for Rum in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. I am all for tax relief on alcoholic beverages but did it need to be included in the Bailout?

Posted: **Thu Oct 02, 2008 2:56 pm**

Huh? In the first place, I'm so impressed that you actually read that whole thing! And in the second place, I'm with you... where does rum figure in?

Posted: **Thu Oct 02, 2008 3:01 pm**

The rum helps me not to cry when I look at my 401(k) balance...

Posted: **Thu Oct 02, 2008 3:01 pm**

Bacardi pays their lobbyists lots of money. I'm guessing that's why it's in the bailout bill.

If rum is involved in the bailout of the economy, I am apparently going to have a bigger role than I thought.

Posted: **Thu Oct 02, 2008 3:07 pm**

No, I didn't read the Bailout Plan. That's funny. Talk radio in Boston was discussing the crazy things included in the Bailout Package and this was one of them--I had to google to be sure. What are they thinking? There are soo many more important thing going on right now--but I will definitely benefit from this one!

Posted: **Thu Oct 02, 2008 3:09 pm**

How else could they pass this if rum wasn't used

Posted: **Thu Oct 02, 2008 3:16 pm**

They also used it to repeal an excise tax on the manufactuer of toy wooden arrows, it will save a particular company in Oregon about $200,000. I wonder what the company paid to get that thrown in. No wonder Congress has a 10% approval rating.

Posted: **Thu Oct 02, 2008 3:17 pm**

Whew! You had me worried there for a minute P-600!

I need copious amounts of rum just to listen to the news these days, so I guess I'm part of it too, Lulu!

Posted: **Thu Oct 02, 2008 3:19 pm**

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Posted: **Thu Oct 02, 2008 3:32 pm**

OINK! Another fine example of pork barrel spending.

http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pag ... rrelreport

Posted: **Fri Oct 03, 2008 11:09 am**

SJfromNJ wrote:They better have the free rum punch stand at STT airport up and running. Bigger cups too?

I'm really hoping that the tourism commissioner, Beverly Nicholson Doty (how scary that I know her name? Thanks to Russ and Jeff.), reads this board. I'm thinking solo cups!! I need more booze to survive the cab to Red Hook!

My favorite pork-barrel project has been the money for NASCAR to build new tracks. Seriously?

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