Rand Paul is pushing a bourbon tax break - but how will he pay for it?

[TexasTowelie]

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Rand Paul publicly demanded spending cuts before he’d vote for legislation providing health care to 9/11 first responders. So when he signed on the next day to an effort to give bourbon makers in his home state of Kentucky a tax break, critics wanted to know how it would be paid for.

Paul’s spokeswoman said it will be, but no specifics beyond a pledge to provide details later year were offered this week when he and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced the bourbon break in a Wednesday press release.

Paul and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, were the only senators Tuesday to oppose making permanent the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund which pays out claims for illnesses and deaths related to the aftermath of the Sept 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Paul held up speedy passage of the bill to protest its lack of any way to pay for the measure.

Then came the bourbon bill. Paul said Thursday that critics accusing him of being hypocritical were wrong.

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1. Rand "We gotta pay for all of these tax cuts" Paul overlooks of course paying for the tax breaks...

his state's bourbon makers will get...nice. Make everyone else in the rest of the 49 states pay for his tax breaks but not their tax breaks...nice, really nice (and fair).