Want To Have Provide Written Documentation of Rape or Incest to an IRS Agent?

[gehayi]

Guess what? The Republicans want to make rape, incest and survival subjects for IRS audits! Not only that, they want to narrow the definition of what rape IS.

And it looks like they might succeed on both counts.

Thomas Barthold, the chief of staff of the nonpartisan Joint Tax Committee, confirmed that one consequence of the Republicans' "No

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But what about the JOBS?

[jazzypom]

Wasn't that the GOP's mandate as well as the racist rhetoric?

Re: But what about the JOBS?

[gehayi]

Yeah. Funny how all the stuff that they've been focusing on has been connected with keeping people down and silencing their critics, innit?

[gehayi]

This is the kind of shit that makes me wish that I could move to another country--somewhere where fucking assholes aren't trying to make being poor a crime.

[gehayi]

Doesn't surprise me. What they mean by "big government" is "any government that isn't them."

[rubygirl29]

I really, really hate the direction this government is taking. There is no such thing as compassion, as understanding, of kindness to another human being. I'm not a minority, I'm employed, I pay taxes, and I wish I didn't because I don't want my money going to support these total asses who in now way represent me.

And by the way, whatever happened to Dr./patient confidentiality?

[rwday]

Just when I think I can't get any more disgusted. I mean, seriously, what do they think, that women get abortions just so they can deduct it on their taxes?

I'm so over this. The majority of the people who voted for this Congress did so because they were concerned about the economy and felt that the Democratic majority was not acting appropriately. Now these clowns get in promising to deal with jobs and the deficit and they're worried about abortions and In God We Trust. Is it 2012 yet?