Harrrrumph Day

 Here are this week's Humps.

A Louisiana House committee voted 8-5 last week to recommend a bill that would make the Bible Louisiana’s first-ever state book. Gee I wonder which version they will use since there are 233 different English versions of the Bible on the market today.  They almost named Winnie the Pooh as their first state book a few years ago, but decided against it because they thought it was about gay people.

Oklahoma Governor, Republican Mary (Help Me, I’ve) Fallin must be kin to Governor Rick (All Hair, No Integrity) Perry since she also seems to have a total disregard for the working folks of Oklahoma. She just signed a law preventing cities in Oklahoma from raising the minimum wage. Like their motto says, “Oklahoma is OK, Not Great, Not Even Good, Just OK.”

The Republican Party in Wisconsin will be voting on a proposal that gives them the right to secede.  Probably the first thing they need to do is learn how to spell secede.

And the biggest humps of all, the Senate which will take up legislation that would extend $85 billion in tax breaks that benefit some of the biggest corporations and wealthy individuals on the planet.  Companies like these who pay NO taxes at all:

Verizon Communications: Profits: $19.8 billion    Effective tax rate: -3.8%
General Electric: Profits: $19.6 billion    Effective tax rate: -18.9%
Boeing: Profits: $14.8 billion    Effective tax rate: -5.5%
NextEra Energy (North America’s largest solar and wind power operator, based in Florida): Profits: $8.8 billion    Effective tax rate: -2%
American Electric Power (Electric utility based in Columbus, Ohio): Profits: $8.2 billion    Effective tax rate: -6.4%
Pacific Gas & Electric (California electrical utility): Profits: $6 billion    Effective tax rate: -8.4%
Apache: (Houston-based oil and gas company): Profits: $6 billion    Effective tax rate: -0.3%
Consolidated Edison: (New York energy company): Profits: $5.9 billion    Effective tax rate: -1.3%
El Paso: (Houston-based energy company that operates the country’s largest natural gas pipeline): Profits: $4.6 billion    Effective tax rate: -0.9%
CenterPoint Energy (Electric and gas utility company based in Houston): Profits: $3.1 billion    Effective tax rate: -11.3%

Stay tuned for future adventures.