H.R. 1586 - This bill should scare you!

H.R. 1586: To impose an additional tax on bonuses received from certain TARP (AIG) recipients, better known as the Government partisipating in a little CYA! This Bill was put together and flew through the House in a blink of an eye. Don't get me wrong...I think that companies who receive TARP money should act financialy and morally responsible (AIG), something the government should have thought of before they crammed that bail-out down our throats! And it appears they did....Chris Dodd! Enough about the he said she said crap. I want to talk about this Bill.


Last week the speed limit on my road was 25 mph and it was recorded daily...(bare with me). I never went over the speed limit but last week a squirell darted out to grab another nut and got ran over by my blue suv. Well, because of that squirells untimely death, the government decided that the speed limit on my road should be 20 mph instead of 25 and that everyone who drove blue suv's at the posted speed limit of 25 mph last week will be ticketed for violating the new 20 mph limit.


The Senate passed a bill that punishes persons for acts they committed that were at the time not illegal and also singles out a certain class (Profile) of people all of which are unconstitutional.

U.S. Constitution Article 1, Section 9:
No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.

Attainder: In the context of the Constitution, a Bill of Attainder is meant to mean a bill that has a negative effect on a single person or group (for example, a fine or term of imprisonment). Originally, a Bill of Attainder sentenced an individual to death, though this detail is no longer required to have an enactment be ruled a Bill of Attainder

ex post facto: Formulated, enacted, or operating retroactively. From what is done afterwards.

Why stop there? It seems the government thinks they are above what we were founded on and can change the laws at will. Scary, don't you think?