WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) – Two Democratic senators on Thursday proposed legislation that would impose a one-time tax on bonuses paid to executives of companies bailed out with taxpayer money<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Senators Barbara Boxer and Jim Webb proposed a 50 percent tax on 2009 bonuses above $400,000 at any firm that has received more than $5 billion in government assistance. <\/p>\n The next question is whether or not this is just another press release or if it actually has a chance of becoming a law.<\/p>\n The senators said they had not yet gathered broad support for the proposal, and neither sits on the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, which would likely have to take up the bill. A 35 percent tax on bonuses at bailed-out companies was proposed last year by the leaders of the Finance Committee, Democrat Max Baucus and Republican Charles Grassley, but it has not been acted on. <\/p>\n So you can add this to a list of ideas floating out there to make taxpayers whole after the bailout spree, but the question still remains: will Democrats in Congress actually do anything to make any of those ideas become reality?\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Inserted from <Daily Kos<\/a>><\/p>\n Cousin FatCat thinks this is a terrible idea. He thinks taxpayers exist for the sole purpose of providing him the finest caviar.<\/p>\n I think it\u2019s a good idea, but think that, if it does actually get through the US $enate, it will be challenged. It\u2019s close enough to being a Bill of Attainder that a reasonable court might overturn it, let alone the fascist five Justices of the Extreme Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019m pleased to see a beginning of activity to recover the people\u2019s money from the banksters\\, but skeptical. Democratic Senators Jim Webb and Barbara unveil another proposal aimed at allowing taxpayers to recoup bailout funds from recipients of exorbitant bonuses at firms that received more than $5 billion in TARP funds: WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"FatCat2\"](\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202010\/J-M\/AMoveAgainstBanksters_14A7\/FatCat2.jpg\" "\\"FatCat2\\"")
<\/a> Democratic Senators Jim Webb and Barbara <\/span>unveil<\/a> another proposal aimed at allowing taxpayers to recoup bailout funds from recipients of exorbitant bonuses at firms that received more than $5 billion in TARP funds:<\/span><\/p>\n