{"id":582145,"date":"2010-05-27T17:07:35","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T21:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"tag:theatlantic.com,2010-05-27:mt-57380"},"modified":"2010-05-27T17:07:35","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T21:07:35","slug":"jobs-bill-to-include-perks-for-nascar-hollywood-rum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/582145","title":{"rendered":"'Jobs Bill' To Include Perks for NASCAR, Hollywood, Rum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today in special interest giveaways<\/a>, the “jobs bill” edition: <\/p>\n

The pending bill still includes a $38 million extension of a
\ndepreciation break for “certain motorsport entertainment complexes,”
\notherwise known as the NASCAR break. And television and film producers
\nwould reap an expensing provision worth $46 million over 10 years.<\/p>\n

Puerto Rican and Virgin Island rum manufacturers would receive
\nexcise tax breaks worth $131 million over 10 years; a second Puerto
\nRican manufacturing break is worth $185 million. American Samoa would
\nreceive a payment worth $18 million “in lieu of (an) economic
\ndevelopment credit,” according to the bill. The bill also extends trade
\nprotections for the domestic cotton industry.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n



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Today in special interest giveaways, the “jobs bill” edition: The pending bill still includes a $38 million extension of a depreciation break for “certain motorsport entertainment complexes,” otherwise known as the NASCAR break. And television and film producers would reap an expensing provision worth $46 million over 10 years. Puerto Rican and Virgin Island rum […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}