Let me translate these for you RPM:
TOBACCO: $10-billion to buy out tobacco farmers from an outdated government quota system
Short term pain for long term gain. The tobacco subsidies are so entrenched that his buyback is the onyl way to get out from under them. Pork, but this is 100 year old pork. Bush is getting rid of it.
FLORIDIANS: $5-billion to allow residents in Florida and eight other states with no state income tax to deduct state sales tax for the next two years.
F' you buddy, ya'll been sucking this tit for years, now we all get the break equally.
MULTINATIONAL AMNESTY: $3.3-billion to cover the tax holiday for U.S. corporations to return overseas profits in tax havens at a 5.25 percent tax rate.
Do you want to end out-sourcing or not? Make up yer damn mind.
ELECTRIC UTILITIES: $2.3-billion in tax credits for electricity produced by "alternative" fuels.
Do you want to cut foreign oil or not? You ***** about it, and then when a prez has the nuts to do something, you ***** about it!
RESTAURANTS: $494-million to let restaurants depreciate improvements in 15 years, rather than 39
I am guessing that you have never worked in the food service industry? Average life of a new restaurant is 2 years, and the lentgh of life of kitchen equipment is less than 10.
HOLLYWOOD: $336-million over five years to encourage film production in low-income communities in Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee.
Yeah, this sucks. Lord knows that we do not want to help the impoverished areas of the US.
TRIAL LAWYERS: $327-million to allow tax deductions for certain costs while litigating discrimination cases
Wow! A liberal that is mad because we are helping the downtrodden? Why is that? Is it beause it may actually help them as opposed to just giving them cash?
NASCAR: A $101-million break for racetrack owners to speed up how quickly they can write off grandstand facilities.
Pork, pure and simple.
CRUISE LINES: $28-million to allow Carnival, Royal Caribbean and other cruise lines to postpone taxes on airplane tickets, hotels and other excursions they sell in the United States.
GAMBLING: $27-million for a tax break to let nonresident foreigners gamble tax-free on U.S. horse and dog races.
Dunno about these, probably just pork.