Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) on Monday night floated the idea of taxing American International Group (AIG: 0.9697, 0.1896, 24.3%) bonus recipients so the government could recoup the $450 million the company is paying to employees in its financial products unit. Within hours, the idea spread to both houses of Congress, with lawmakers proposing an AIG bonus tax.
While the Senate constructed the $787 billion stimulus last month, Dodd unexpectedly added an executive-compensation restriction to the bill. That amendment provides an "exception for contractually obligated bonuses agreed on before Feb. 11, 2009," which exempts the very AIG bonuses Dodd and others are seeking to tax. The amendment is in the final version and is law.
Also, Sen. Dodd was AIG's largest single recipient of campaign donations during the 2008 election cycle with $103,100, according to opensecrets.org. Obama was the second largest at $101,000.
Dodd's office did not immediately return a request for comment.
One of AIG Financial Products' largest offices is based in Connecticut.
Dod is now claiming that "someone" slipped this into the amendment.
Nearly every one of the democrat/stalinists that are outraged about this voted for it.
This is simply the right had distracting you while the left is doing something far more disturbing.
Hi Spence....
