The Party of Privilege 4
Still making the rich richer, the poor poorer, and destroying the middle class:
Nonsense is the wrong word.
Lie would be better.
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May 31, 2006 at 9:23 pm
I’m sure glad I’m not the one who has to sell the idea of an estate tax. The DNC would be well advised to give it up and maybe go for some kind of wealth tax; it would be more palatable to the voting populace. People already pay income taxes all their lives, and the concept of levying another tax after they die on what you didn’t get the first time around just strikes a lot of people as over-zealous.
June 5, 2006 at 2:18 pm
That comment is a tribute to how effectively the Republican crusade to rename it the “death tax” and bamboozle the polity into thinking that it somehow threatened those who, in fact, would in no way be subject to it.
Personally, I think that those who have been able to become filthy rich because of the benefits provided by living in this country should return proportionally more of their wealth to the society in the form of taxes than the rest of us.
Sebastian Mallaby states it well:
When evaluating any product, evaluate the product, not the packaging.
And evaluating the Republican product, hidden under their misleading packaging of spurious concern for the well-being of the average person and religious posturing, is a product of making the rich, richer; the poor, poorer; and erasing the civil liberties that the Founders enumerated in the Constitution of the United States of America.
They dishonor the blood and treasure sacrificed to build and preserve this nation.
June 6, 2006 at 8:40 pm
I don’t see where I said that I thought it threatened anyone who wouldn’t be subject to it.
As far as the need of some people to make sure the rich have to pay more, I said they’d be better off to levy a wealth tax. I don’t even know if that idea would pass muster, but it would be more sellable than the estate tax.
June 9, 2006 at 8:03 pm
I was extrapolating from your comment about not wanting to argue in favor of an estate tax.
As for a “wealth tax,” we used to sorta kinda have one of those. It was a progressive income tax.
It’s going away too.
I repeat, the current Federal Administration’s loyalty lies with the very, very rich–look at the behavior and put the rhetoric to the side–and the rest of us be damned.