I can sleep better knowing Tori Spelling is safe from the death tax

[Opusnone]

Her and Anna Nicole Smith.
God bless America.

[pooja]

1. That's mean

It may be true and I may not think it is newsworthy enough to spend much time on his death. But she is grieving and I'm sure she doesn't need wise ass cracks like that.

[AlamoDemoc]

4. We are all grieving after the defeat of minimum wage increase..n/t

[Opusnone]

5. Sorry

I'm in one of those moods today.

[Behind the Aegis]

2. .

:puke:

And here I thought only conservatives were "compassionate." :eyes:

[journalist3072]

3. Exactly. And meanwhile, the minimum wage hasn't seen an increase

in almost 10 years. Like I said here on DU earlier this week, the Democrats have been given a gift.

If they are smart, they will use it.

The Republicans have shown the American people who they really are.

- They lowered the estate tax for the wealthiest of the wealthy in our country, while doing nothing to help the working poor.

- And they allowed a small number of members in their own Party to delay the re-authorization of the Civil Rights Act. A few southern Representatives are a little touchy/sensitive about the fact that their states (who have a history of racial discrimination) are subject to federal overight of changes to their voting laws.

This is a gift, Democrats. Take it and run with it!

I've been talking about all this on my blog this week. You ought to see what one of our friends on the other side of the aisle have to say about the minimum wage!

http://progressiveminds.bloghi.com/2006/06/22/the-democrats-have-been-handed-a-gift.html

http://progressiveminds.bloghi.com/2006/06/22/why-voting-rights-still-matters.html

[bobby911]

6. so

we rejoice in conservatives deaths?

[Opusnone]

9. Who is rejoicing in death?

No one makes money alone, except counterfeiters.

I like these guys:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-poor15jun15,1,7628610.story?coll=la-headlines-business&track=crosspromo

And if Warren Buffet is against something, my heart tells me it can't be too bad.

[journalist3072]

10. Huh? I don't understand your question

Who's rejoicing in conservative's deaths?

I'll rejoice in the death of their party, but not them physically.

My point is that they have shown us who they are. They have shown whose side they are on, and what 'values' they hold dear.

And we need to make that an issue in this campaign season.

[TahitiNut]

13. "we"???

:eyes:

[MrTriumph]

7. Demo. leaders in Congress are some of the richest Americans

and have NO interest in the min. wage or protecting US workers jobs from outsourcing or illegal immigration or bad trade agreements like NAFTA.

The Senate Democrats showed their colors on the IWR, bankruptcy bill and Alito confirmation. In the house, the Dem.s have done a better job representing Democratic values, but you can find more than a few Bush enablers.

Overall the Democrats in Congress represent the Corporate wing of the Democratic Party.

God bless Howard Dean.

[pat_k]

11. Not "corporate" -- personalize with "Greedy CEOs" or something similar

Since I'm on the subject of labels (post below), I have long been annoyed with using the word "corporate" to demonize.

"Corporate" just doesn't mean something "bad" to most Americans.

Private industry per se is not bad. We like to think of ourselves as an industrious people.

But private industry can only flourish and create prosperity for all when the power of the people to protect their interests is embodied in strong public institutions. A vigorous private sector -- something I think we all want -- cannot exist if work is not properly valued.

When the public sector (aka Our Government) is functional, it is capable of responding to the people's demands for economic security; and we enforce our right to see a doctor when we need to, our right to a quality education, our right to a living wage; and so on.

People just don't hear us when we demonize Corporate America as a big evil blob. They DO hear us when we personalize it -- when we say "greedy CEOs" or "power hungry politicians" instead of "Corporate America."

[Opusnone]

12. Estate tax meme could be Gene Lottery dues

Congratulations! You've hit the genetic lottery.
Better the rich should spend it all or give it away.
I know I will.

[pat_k]

8. Don't you mean "dead billionaires' dues"

They certainly benefited the most from our collective infrastructure -- educated workers, law enforcement, clean water, on and on. They've got some back dues to pay.

I'm always amazed when so many citizens of nation founded in reaction to the evils of aristocracy are so reluctant to do anything to prevent those evils by countering the flow of money and power into the hands of a few.

We need a new phrase. Using Estate tax instead of their "Death Tax" just doesn't cut it. "Dead billionaires tax" may not be the greatest, but at least it is closer to the truth.

And, I've had it with calling the massive kickback to the new American Aristocracy a "tax cut."

It is "Bush's Tax Kickback" or "the Republican Tax Kickback."

[SoCalDem]

16. It's really just a "deferred tax"..Paid little or none while alive

on that loot, so it's a "pay me now or pay me later"...they chose later...

[shadowknows69]

14. That is kind of cold.

Sometimes you have to put aside the world and simply walk in another fellow man's shoes ya know?

[MADem]

15. Well, not to kill the buzz, but the guy was survived by his wife as well

I don't think she should be kicked to the curb because her old man died.