Killing the Estate Tax is one more step in creating two classes

[question everything]

of people.

First, the Bush "tax cut" cut the taxes on investments - capital gains and dividends income - while kept intact the payroll taxes - SS and Medicare that are regressive.

Now removing the estate tax means that individuals who do not work, who make a living from investment only, will get to keep more and more of their income and to leave for their heirs, while we, who eke a living, will fall more and more behind.

Who are the jackass Democrats who voted for it? And why do they call themselves Democrats?

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[rockedthevoteinMA]

2. Baloney. n/t

[livinginphotographs]

4. There is NOT middle ground.

Can the Dems please start being a true opposition party? They need to get the message out of what the Republican party's true intentions are.

And we are so far right to the middle ground that it's not even an option anymore.

[soupkitchen]

3. Off with their heads, off with their heads

I want to see a National Guillotine built on the Mall in Washington, inscribed with this message for all representatives to see, "Those who sharpen class distinctions also sharpen the guillotine."

[bookman]

5. The Paris Hilton tax...

..nuff said.

[question everything]

7. No, not enough...

to complain that only the reach will benefit from it. For most voters this would not mean much or, worse, this will increase their mistaken notion that some day they, too, could be rich.

No, it is important to compare these tax treatments side by side. For many, they pay more in payroll taxes than they pay in income taxes. And for most Americans, it is a given they they will be wage earners all their lives, that their source of income will always be earned income.

Thus it is important to show that while most of us continue to pay a lot in taxes to support a program that may not be there when we need it, there are some - and we should be able to get the numbers - whose tax obligation continues to diminish under this administration.

We need to spell it clearly, if we ever have a chance to capture the votes of those who thought, last November, that "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." We have to show them that it is broke...

[FrenchieCat]

6. The redistribution of wealth to the wealthy has begun

FOR REAL.