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The Beeb's (subsidized) Fisker Karma

More toys for Obama’s One Percent.

Leo DiCaprio has already picked up his $7500 taxpayer subsidy for buying an electric, taxpayer-financed Fisker Karma. Leo has also lent his time to promote the brand, given its recent Made-in-Finland, battery-pack, and money troubles (is a Hollywood multi-millionaire on the public teet really an image boost?).

Now comes teeny-bopper millionaire Justin Bieber who recently bought his own $100k Karma chariot. The teen crooner got hauled over for doing 80 mph in his new steed – which he can afford given his $7500 taxpayer gift.

Sigh. A least the president is sticking to his fairness doctrine: One Percent Senator Carl Levin, D-Michigan, also banked a $7500 taxpayer freebie, even though he only bought a pedestrian, $40,000 Chevy Volt.

Henry Payne
Henry Payne is a columnist, editorial writer, and award-winning editorial cartoonist for The Detroit News. A twenty-five year newspaper veteran, the Pulitzer Prize-nominated satirist produces 12 cartoons a week for The News and United Feature Syndicate. Payne is also a contributor to National Review, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, and other national publications. His News column appears every Tuesday online.

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