We have junk food, junk mail and junk bonds.Now, thanks to our dysfunctional and devious Congress, we have junk laws like the “Taxpayer Relief Act.”Junk laws are really nothing new. The people we send to Washington to represent us have been passing legislation larded with pork or special privileges for their friends in business, agriculture and labor since the country was born.Insiders have always known how this cynical bipartisan game is played. But now, thanks to the failure of Congress to deal with the government debt crisis it in large part created, the average American is starting to become aware of these junk bills.Even the liberal media were outraged by what went on when Congress passed the “American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012” -- which, ironically, raised the taxes of every working American by 2 percent by returning the Social Security tax to its usual 6.2 percent level.The “Fiscal Cliff Bill” did virtually nothing to solve the federal government’s money problems or create a single job.
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