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annabanana

(52,791 posts)
Sun Feb 5, 2012, 11:59 AM Feb 2012

Is it all about the Estate Tax after all?

http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/superpac-super-payday

Federal Election Commission filings released this week showed that conservatives groups are amassing an ocean of cash for the 2012 presidential campaign. Thanks to the likes of the Koch brothers, the Walton clan and other of the usual suspects on the right, in 2011 conservative SuperPAC's outraised their liberal counterparts by more than seven to one. But if they win, rich Republican donors could more than get back the millions they invested. As it turns, just one law they are trying to buy - the elimination of the estate tax - could put billions of dollars back into their families' bank accounts. Of course, that gaping hole would have to be filled by all other American taxpayers
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Everything else that the gazillionaires get from these guys would just be icing on the cake.

The article makes a compelling case
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Is it all about the Estate Tax after all? (Original Post) annabanana Feb 2012 OP
Look for the GOP label and know what it buys. Generic Other Feb 2012 #1

Generic Other

(28,979 posts)
1. Look for the GOP label and know what it buys.
Sun Feb 5, 2012, 02:58 PM
Feb 2012

They have sold the American Dream. They will destroy the country.

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