With a 90% tax that was clearly punitive in nature. Punitive taxes are bills of attainder. Tax policy cannot be used to punish.
I hate to Bricker this thread, but no. The Constitution specifically prohibits Bills of Attainder. Cite where the courts have ruled the AIG bill to be a Bill of Attainder, or admit you’re simply adhering to a legal theory that doesn’t hold water.
Such a case has not gone through the courts yet because Congress hasn’t passed such a law yet.
The effects of such a thing as a “Bill of Attainder” have been accomplished without the strictly semantic distinction. The Japanese/American citizens of California, for instance, who were punished as a group, with a denial of civil rights, for no other reason than the accident of descent. Congress passed no laws, but the thing was done.
An idiot like Trump likely cannot legally do any such thing, but the impact would be felt, nonetheless. Who’s going to buy a car if maybe you can’t get parts for it? Certainly you would at least wait to see how it all shakes out in court. The threat alone would be enough to send the stock price skittering.
Nitpicking being what we do, I feel compelled to point out that Congress passed Public Law 503 to implement Executive Order 9066. And though the Japanese internment was horrible and unconstitutional, it wasn’t a bill of attainder. Those are legislative acts that specifically name the people being punished without trial. For the same reason, the AIG thing wasn’t a BOA either.
I had a recollection that the AIG clawback passed into law, but it appears it only passed through the House. Ignorance fought.
Do you all think Trump’s wife Melanie will be be part of his campaign? So far she has been silent.
Yeah, he specifically mentioned Ford several times, and stated he’d call Mark Fields to give him “the bad news,” so clearly he isn’t singling out any one automaker. :rolleyes:
If you’re going to bitch at me about my use of a legal term, you might not want to invent your own interpretation of trumps position out of whole cloth.
Both Trump’s wife Melania and his daughter Ivanka are supposed to begin campaigning for him soon. Cite
Mike Tyson has endorsed Trump.It won’t be long before his fellow intellectuals follow suit.
Son of a Rich, gimme a drink. 
Sorry, can’t help it. Lots of airplay lately for the song at the link, so what else am I gonna think of when I see your username? 
Trump has locked up the barely-literate facial tattoo demo.
That was Jeb!'s last hope. 
But who will get George Foreman and all those who come to him asking where to go with their invention ideas?
There is no doubt, upon investigation, that you are entirely right and I was wholly wrong. I fling myself prostrate in repentance, and can only hope that my forthright acceptance of my wrongitude will prevent persecution and damnation from the Avenging Angel of Unconfessed Wrongness. Whoa is me!
Well, maybe he is, maybe he isn’t. It’s just as likely - more likely, really - that Ford/Fields is a symbol here rather than the sole, specific target.