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In the midst of all the heated conversation about health-care reform, a Michigan Congressman is sponsoring a bill to give pet owners a tax break for pet care.
Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mi) has introduced H.R. 3501 to create a deduction of up to $3,500 on federal tax returns for the care of “qualified” pets, defined as “legally owned, domesticated, and live animals.” Animals used for business purposes–say, a dog that helps round up sheep or a cat filmed in TV commercials–aren’t covered. The bill says qualified care includes veterinary care, though it doesn’t mention what else (pet sitting? chew toys?) would be included. There’s no apparent provision for people who don’t itemize and utilize the standard deduction instead. And there’s no word on whether the pet needs a valid Social Security number. (Just kidding.)
I wonder if Michael Vick supports this.
#14, Mr. Diesel,
I don’t know.
I had an CAT done the same day in about ’95 and when my father had an MRI on his knee it was done maybe two days later in ’05.
Since moving to Indiana I had a nuclear imaging (gall bladder test) done that took about 10 days to arrange in ’04. And my ma-in-law had a nuclear imaging on her heart that took two days to schedule in a Chicago ‘burb hospital.
I much prefer the availability of services I had in Canada to what is available here. Most of that though is because we live in a very small community with limited services and physicians.
Personally, I think the month wait is just fud. I don’t know of anyone that waited that long for any test.
#8 and #9
The poor don’t pay taxes. Yeah those lucky poor people, they don’t pay taxes. It’s a good thing they’re lucky too because if they were to get sick and need hospitalization, they’d be in debt for life -if they can get someone to treat them- because they have no health insurance. But hell yeah those shiftless bastards don’t deserve any better right? I got a friend in WV right now dying because she’s poor and made the mistake to get sick.
But HOORAY some fat cat wants a tax break for his frakkin’ pet’s veterinary bills! The USA sucks and I feel fortunate to have emmigrated when I did.
#2 I think you just may have come up with the answer to a major health care issue. The shortage of Doctors. If vets are allowed to treat humans as well as animals that should go a long way to reducing the lines shouldn’t it?
“Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mi) has introduced H.R. 3501″
Chairman, House Republican Policy Committee
elected to Michigan’s 11th congressional district in 2002. According to Wikipedia, this district has not elected a Democrat in 44 years.
I am embarrassed that I belong to the same party as this bonehead.