Animal Rights & Pet Debates

Proposed pet tax
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/33584389#33576356

Thoughts?

 
 

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I can't "do" video. I am a person with hearing loss and need closed captioning for video as I cannot make out the words otherwise. So, what is this tax? Federal? State? What's the story? Do you have a link that's not video? When I google I found these links:

http://www.contracostatimes.com/opinion/ci_13601798?nclick_check=1

and,

http://www.contracostatimes.com/opinion/ci_13601798?nclick_check=1

http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=188703

about a propsed tax DEDUCTION. Is this it? As you posted an article back on August 28 about this, is this an update?

Please clarify. Thanks! :)

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Gypsy
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The Air shares its spirit with
all the life it supports."
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"If there are no dogs in Heaven,
then when I die I want to go where they went."
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"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress
can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
~~Mahatma Gandhi

Yes, the HAPPY Act would be a $3500 tax deduction.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113791908

At the time I thought it would be for just perhaps larger animals such as cats, dogs, etc. but it seems it could also cover pets right down to lizards and turtles?

 
 

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And is just as bad of an idea as it was last time we discussed it, if not more so.

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