The House of Representatives passed a tax cut yesterday for the Gulf Coast, to help redevelopment after Hurricanes Katrina & Rita. The “Gulf Opportunity Zone” includes tax breaks to help rebuilding in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, including new bond authority and incentives to rebuild houses.
However, according to the Washington Post:
Bowing to pressure from Rep. Frank R. Wolf (R-Va.) and other social conservatives, GOP leaders exempted casinos, country clubs, hot tub facilities, liquor stores, massage parlors, golf courses, racetracks and tanning salons from the tax breaks, exemptions the administration initially opposed.
My first inclination, of course, is to goof on the concept that massage parlors and country clubs got tagged as immoral by a right-wing rep. Unfortunately, Wolf’s name stuck in my memory, so I had to look up where I’d heard of him before.
Turns out he was the rep who introduced the bill condemning the genocide in Sudan. I wrote about him briefly last year. He’s been insanely out in front on this issue for a while now.
So, while I’m fully prepared to goof on his idiot moralizing and his contemptible idea of who “deserves” tax breaks, I have to be fair and say that he’s also trying to save a ton of helpless people in Sudan.
But tanning salons?
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