While Senator Charles Schumer has introduced legislation to repeal the $5.50 tax on Canadians entering the US by boat or air, the companion bill in the House introduced by Rep. Bill Owens could face obstacles.
House leaders may find it difficult to allow such a measure to come to the floor as passing it would hand the Democrat Owens a ready made issue to run on next year.
The tax is a good issue for Owen's challenger, businessman Matt Doheny.
House Republicans will not likely want to give it up and place a feather in Mr. Owen's cap.
Of course Mr. Owens introduction of the bill may be a means to tee up the GOP as being obsructionists and craven in their partisanship.
And you thought legislation is debated and acted upon based on its merits.
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So, we now have Owens/Pelosi and Schmuck Schumer pushing to repeal a tax. There is no global warming, as hell has frozen over.
Owens is having a townhall tonight at and around 8pm. I got a set-up call for 7.45pm last night. If i have the time....what do I ask him? Give it to me and we will see. I already thought of the tax.
Why does he care about eliminating a five dollar tax on foreigners, but he voted for a bazillion dollars in taxes via Nancycare? My health insurance rates have skyrocketed to pay for the "30 year old children" mandates and birth control mandate with no copays.
Why does my 80 year old mom have a copay on her medicine and an able bodied young woman has no copay on her birth control?
There is your headline...Owens favors raising taxes on US citizens and lowering them on foreigners.
It doesn't matter what you ask Owens. You might better bypass him and go straight to Nancie Pelosi. She's the one who tells him when to chew and when to swallow. Probably when to bark too. He's just Nancie's wind up toy.
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