All the kids get $500

[EightFingers]

You'll need to read the last sentence for "Hawaii-related".

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/...state-and/

Say it comes up for a vote, are you for or against?

[Bullwinkle]

banksters need more federal cash? grin

[Kelena]

Always please summarize links.

[Bullwinkle]

please goes a long way in making a request - or is this a demand?

dont want to offend the enforcers - grin

anyone going to work today?

[EightFingers]

quote:

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Originally posted by Kelena

Always please summarize links.

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The summary is in the link itself.

[bgiles]

It's soooooooooooo easy to be generous with someone else's money.

bamboo2u

[Haaheo okole puka]

Oh wonderful, another slush fund for the government to raid.

[Hawnjigs]

Oh yeah, that will fix the “dysfunctional, rotten mess of a carcass” tax code.



Aloha aina, aloha kai

[Guest]

This big government plan with our money for our children will work! You can bet on it! /s

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

I don't think it's a great idea by any means, but as a comparison:

The Obama Administration is proposing to remove 8 subsidies to the oil and gas industry amounting to $38.5 billion over the next 10 years or roughly $4 billion a year). Keep in mind this is by no means all of the subsidies the oil and gas industry receives:
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/arch...es/274121/

There are about 4 million babies born in the US every year. At $500 for each savings account, that's $2 billion a year.

Half of what the strongest, most powerful industry in America receives as corporate welfare every year from the proposed cuts to their current subsidies.