And that's illegal according to the Constitution.
“It was like blaming the victim of a holdup for corrupting the integrity of the thug. And yet — he thought — through all the generations of political extortion, it was not the looting bureaucrats who had taken the blame, but the chained industrialists, not the men who peddled legal favors, but the men who were forced to buy them; and through all those generations of crusades against corruption, the remedy had always been, not the liberating of the victims, but the granting of wider powers for extortion to the extortionists. The only guilt of the victims, he thought, had been that they accepted the guilt.” Thoughts of Hank Rearden, Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged.
And that's illegal according to the Constitution.
Yes, and Congress violated the Ex-Post Facto law, retroactively, by passing usurer tax increases on the bonuses, and Government breaching contract.
I hope the punks in Gooberment are sooo stupid to go after the hold outs in court.