Obama Signs ‘Leprechaun Windfall Profits Tax’

President Barack O’Bama today signed the “Leprechaun Windfall Profits Equalization Act”. O’Bama used the St. Patrick’s Day holiday as a backdrop to highlight the bill signing.

“In signing this bill, the Leprechauns will pay their fair share of taxes when they collect a windfall. After all, what did they do to deserve a pot of gold?”

When asked if there would be any severe backlash to the new tax, Democrat strategist James Carville said “Me and Stan [Greenberg, his polster] looked at da numbas and dare ain’t anuf of dem little guys to even shoo a swamp gator away from a Bayou barbecue!”

Lucky Cobblers and Shoemakers Local 777 chief  Seamus McBrogue said “Aye, ’tis just a way for large folk to keep the wee folk down, don’t ya know.”

A dissenting Congressman, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said “This bill never would have stood a chance if Tip O’Neill were still speaker!”

Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis stated that a new class of worker, leprechaun watcher, could wind up “giving tens of thousands of Americans good paying jobs”. A ‘watcher’ would be employed to stare at the leprechaun until an IRS field agent arrived to collect the pot o’ gold and seize the windfall.

Upon hearing news of the impending tax, the Easter Bunny has moved his entire basket of eggs offshore to the Cayman Islands.