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txaslftist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-05 09:32 AM Original message |
The "Death Tax" lie. |
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wakeme2008 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-05 09:51 AM Response to Original message |
1. Question Frist.... |
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txaslftist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-05 09:57 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. So will their constituents. |
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satya (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-05 09:57 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Full disclosure--excellent idea. Make 'em all say how the legislation will |
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txaslftist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-05 10:00 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Aren't the net worths and incomes of most representatives ... |
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wakeme2008 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-05 11:16 AM Response to Reply #5 |
22. With Frist's parents still being alive |
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txaslftist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-05 11:35 AM Response to Reply #22 |
26. Ah... I get it. Poor widdle orphan Fwistie. |
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ElaineinIN (345 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-05 10:02 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. I heard a report once |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-05 09:59 AM Response to Original message |
4. Estate tax has same fundamental flaw as the Alternative Minimum Tax |
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txaslftist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-05 10:07 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. It WAS indexed for inflation. |
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ElaineinIN (345 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-05 10:15 AM Response to Reply #8 |
13. It was never inflation indexed. |
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ElaineinIN (345 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-05 10:10 AM Response to Reply #4 |
10. You are absolutely right, sort of... |
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Hamlette (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-05 10:10 AM Response to Reply #4 |
11. the estate tax is indexed for inflation, |
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ElaineinIN (345 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-05 10:18 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Look I agree with you |
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Hamlette (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-05 10:23 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. agreed, it is not indexed for inflation |
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ElaineinIN (345 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-05 10:33 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Well, it is, but that isn't the point |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-05 10:51 AM Response to Reply #11 |
20. No, a few arbitrary adjustments does not constitute indexing |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-05 10:13 AM Response to Reply #4 |
12. So, instead of leaving $1.25 million to your kid |
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samplebytes (27 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-05 10:19 AM Response to Reply #4 |
15. a million dollars barely buys a home in some places.... |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-05 10:46 AM Response to Reply #15 |
19. And that is one of the fundamental flaws with a one-size-fits-all system |
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txaslftist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-05 11:37 AM Response to Reply #15 |
27. And you just GOTTA live in those places, right? |
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mod mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-05 10:04 AM Response to Original message |
7. Do you mean "the Paris Hilton tax" why let the thugs frame our speech? |
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txaslftist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-05 10:08 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. That was my point by putting "death tax" in quotes. It isn't. |
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satya (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-05 10:30 AM Response to Original message |
17. The estate tax is really a deferred capital gains tax. If everybody |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-05 10:52 AM Response to Reply #17 |
21. My mom's attitude is "Stop changing the #$%^&* rules!" |
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txaslftist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-05 11:33 AM Response to Reply #17 |
24. The lawmakers are the beneficiaries of the repeal... |
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BiggJawn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-05 11:32 AM Response to Original message |
23. And Ditto-monkeys who stand to inherit a leaky single-wide.... |
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txaslftist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-05 11:35 AM Response to Reply #23 |
25. Gush Pfleghmball? |
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