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Own a Racehorse? Need a Tax Break? Page 244 Has You Covered.
The el bichito relief bill making its way through Congress is long overdue, but there's something in there for everyone.
Own a Racehorse? Need a Tax Break? Page 244 Has You Covered.
By Charles P. Pierce Dec 21, 2020
Own a Racehorse? Need a Tax Break? Page 244 Has You Covered.
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The el bichito relief bill—also known as the Governor William J. LePetomaine Memorial We Have to Keep Our Phony Baloney Jobs Act of 2020—is 5,593 pages long. (It's a good thing that OSHA regulations don't apply to Congress, or a lot of pages and messengers would have a helluva class action suit.) Naturally, within this massive cinderblock is something for everyone. For example, on pages 341-342, there is $500,000,000 for Israel's defense.
1. SEC. 8072. Of the amounts appropriated in this Act under the headings ‘‘Procurement, Defense-Wide’’ and
2. ‘‘Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide’’, $500,000,000 shall be for the Israeli Cooperative Programs: Provided, That of this amount, $73,000,000 shall be for the Secretary of Defense to provide to the Government of Israel for the procurement of the Iron Dome defense system to counter short-range rocket threats,
subject to the U.S.-Israel Iron
Dome
Procurement Agreement, as amended; $177,000,000 shall be for the Short Range Ballistic Missile Defense (SRBMD) program, including cruise missile defense research and development under the SRBMD program, of which $50,000,000 shall be for co-production activities of SRBMD systems in the United States and in Israel to meet Israel’s defense requirements consistent with each nation’s laws, regulations, and procedures, subject to the U.S.-Israeli co-production agreement..
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And, on pages 2630-2633, Congress decides to regulate the selection of the next Dalai Lama. (H/t to NPR's Lisa Desjardins for spotting this one first)
