New York Times writer David Kocieniewski instructs us about the tax amnesty, er, "tax holiday" you may have heard about, in which corporations would bring their overseas income back to America in exchange for paying a lower rate on that income, just as they did in 2005. Defenders call it a "second stimulus," implying that corporations would bring back money and invest it in the economy. Mr. Kocieniewski takes until paragraph 6 to destroy that transparently self-serving argument (long story short: it didn't work that way in 2005, and why would anyone think it would?), but at least he spends thirty more paragraphs eviscerating it -- which right-wingers will no doubt cite as an example of "liberal bias," which I understand to mean "reporting of facts that don't support right-wing schemes." Anyway, this is as good a time as any to communicate your will that your Reps and Senators oppose this corporate tax amnesty. Ahem! "Tax holiday." Tools for contacting your Reps and Senators are, as always, in the upper left-hand corner of this page.

(I'm well aware that "amnesty" isn't really a bad word. But I'm not always sure right-wingers understand that when they labor to make a neutral word into a bad word, they can suffer the consequences just as easily as the rest of us.)