Among others, the new, umpty billion save-us-all-from-the-Depression bill also includes the following: Temporary Increase In Coal Excise Tax: Funding of Black Lung Disability Trust Fund Tax Credit for Carbon Dioxide Sequestration New Qualified Plug-in Electric Drive Motor Vehicles Exclusion From Heavy Truck Tax for Idling Reduction Units and Advanced Insulation Transportation Fringe Benefit to Bicycle Commuters Extension of the Economic Development Credit for American Samoa Extension of Mine Rescue Team Training Credit Seven Year Cost Recovery Period For Motorsports Racing Track Facility Tax Incentives for Investment in the District of Columbia Permanent Authority for Undercover Operations Proving that whatever happens to the country, in Congress, any day is a pork day. Oink. Via Dealbreaker . MORE: Don’t forget the excise tax exemption for wooden arrows . Nothing about buggy whips, tho.
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