Thad McCotter Votes Down Food for Hungry Kids, Promotes Tax-Free Dog Lingerie
There are children going hungry in America, but in December of 2010 Rep. Thaddeus McCotter of Michigan voted against S. 3307, a bill to help bolster school lunch programs for those hungry kids.
In the same 111th Congress, Thad McCotter wrote and introduced legislation to give a tax break for pampered dogs. In these troubled economic times, do you have in mind a Swarovski crystal collar for your dog, perhaps set off by a lovely pink flower Tarina Tarantino necklace? To make the set complete, why not stuff your dog into a hand-made silk dress with organza flowers? Don’t forget the Italian-made black ruffle carrier for shopping trips on the promenade. When baby gets home, she’ll need her own furniture to rest upon — why not an upholstered ottoman for dogs, complete with footrest? At bedtime, why not show Senator Rick Santorum a thing or two and add some Va-Va to your Voom by putting your dog in a night-time satin ruffle-bottom lingerie set with corset?
Buy all these completely useless luxury vanity items for your dog and you haven’t even spent half the money you could while writing it all off, tax-free, every year, under the plan laid out in H.R. 3501, the Happy Act.
Food for hungry kids? That can wait. In Thaddeus McCotter’s moral universe, tax write-offs for poochie taffeta must come first.
[...] He gets on stage as a middle-aged, balding lawyer in a shirt and tie and expects the audience to take him seriously as a rock and roller. He introduces legislation to Congress that would provide tax breaks for dog lingerie. [...]