This is an email from my father, Herb Dicker, a 40-year veteran of the banking industry in New York (His full bio appears below as it seems illustrative):
. . .in the bailout bill:
New Tax earmarks in Bailout bill:
- Film and Television Productions (Sec. 502)
- Wooden Arrows designed for use by children (Sec. 503)
- 6 page package of earmarks for litigants in the 1989 Exxon Valdez incident, Alaska (Sec. 504)
Tax earmark "extenders" in the bailout bill. - Virgin Island and Puerto Rican Rum (Section...
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