Professor James Maule of Mauled Again writes about the silliness of Republican congressman Thaddeus McCotter’s Humanity and Pets Partnered Through the Years (HAPPY) Act:
William Ahern, director of policy and communications at the Tax Foundation… puts it nicely: “The tax code should not be used to make people ‘happy.’” He notes that the proposal is “just another snowflake in the blizzard of unjustifiable tax deductions, exemptions, and credits that congressmen propose to curry favor with a particular group of voters.” Amen.
It’s high time that members of Congress stopped using the tax law as a pawn in their trolling for votes. It’s tawdry. It’s offensive. It’s wrong. It endangers the republic. Congress needs to reject this latest attempt to monkey around with the Internal Revenue Code.
I couldn’t agree more and said so back in August when McCotter first proposed his voter-pandering bill:
How out of touch with reality must a person be to propose, in a time of rampant unemployment, huge deficits, two wars and 40 million uninsured people, that the government subsidize the care of ferrets?
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