Bernie is up at the tax debate.

[SamKnause]

I love Bernie.

[SamKnause]

1. Bernie kicked ASS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

6. What else is new?!

[wiggs]

2. Imagine what will happen the day after the estate tax is repealed. Huge drawdown on trusts and

hundreds of billions transferred to heirs.

Right now, if your estate as a couple is worth more than 10,000,000, you're heirs would pay 40% on anything gifted or left to them above 10 million. There are huge estates in every big city out there, managed at great expense to somehow maximize the size of the estate but also managed to avoid as much estate tax as feasible.

In the world of the .1%, 10 million is not a big estate. There are wealth management firms that don't even talk to you if you have less than 10 million to manage.

Rather than risk a future where the estate tax comes back, the days and weeks after the repeal will see unbelievable transfers of wealth. Wish I could be a part of that, but even if I was I would recognize the reason and history of the estate tax is valid and that we all contribute to the overall economic health of the country.

But...watch what happens when on one day there's a 40% tax on wealth given away, and the next there's nothing.

[questionseverything]

7. the end of the estate tax will be devastating

personally I hope a couple of the deep pockets drop dead before it is signed into law

[Irish_Dem]

3. Me too. nt

[sadiegirl]

4. Nothing being said by anyone right now matters. This sickening bill will pass.

May Karma strike them all.

[NCTraveler]

9. Thats how Im feeling.

I was a bit more optimistic last week.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

5. Oh, goodie - the guy who made this all possible

For refusing to concede a primary he'd list an poitlessly beating up the only person who stood between the US and a Trumpian nightmare

[NCTraveler]

8. I hope he can stop it. Nt

[SamKnause]

10. I don't think it can be stopped.

They are waiting for McConnell right now.

[NCTraveler]

11. I dont either.

This stinks.

[SamKnause]

12. McConnell and Hatch are all smiles.

I hate them with a white hot passion.