Don Nickles: “The amendment is directed toward States that have increases in welfare population.”

I do not defend 199, period. I think Congress--when you are rewriting the tax code, you should have a uniform corporate rate, not a lower rate for manufacturing.

Law makers must carefully distinguish between the need for tax credits which may operate as subsidies, compared to more favored tax deductions which are expensed as part of ordinary business operations.

I could not disagree with you more.

You cannot afford to make fossil fuels' tax equal to the enormous subsidy that wind currently receives.