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Article: Senators add tax cuts for cycles, RVs to stimulus
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- February 13, 2009
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Add motorcycles and motor homes to the list of things buyers can get federal tax breaks for, courtesy of lawmakers who won eleventh-hour additions to the stimulus bill to help home-state industries.
Tax deductions for both types of vehicles were added to the compromise $787 billion stimulus package that lawmakers were hoping to complete as early as Friday. An earlier version of the language, included in the Senate-passed stimulus, only applied to passenger automobiles and light trucks.
Four senators successfully lobbied for including motorcycles in the legislation: Bob Casey, D-Pa.; Christopher Bond, R-Mo., Russell Feingold, D-Wis., and Herb Kohl, D-Wis. Harley-Davidson ...