After voting against repealing the estate tax, Sen. Maria Cantwell issued the following statement:
“I support repealing the estate tax for small businesses and family farms. A 55 percent tax rate is unfair for America’s small businesses and family farms; they deserve tax fairness. It’s my hope that we can find an estate tax reform compromise before this expires in 2011. The vote the Republican majority pushed today was a vote for full repeal
I thought from past posts that the whole notion of small businesses and farms being hardest hit was specious.
So why should Marie accept it as a valid comprimise then?
I’m confused.
If they want to hit the rich, hit the uber-rich. The billionaires like Kerry, Gates, Buffet, etc. But why hit the little guys who accumulated 3-5 mil over an ENTIRE life? That’s possible for many, even those in their 20’s right now who have almost nothing. Don’t lump those people in with the billionaires. It’s misguided to do so. The little guy who carefully saved all his life gets hurt more than the Kerrys and the Buffets of the world, from a practical standpoint.
I am glad she voted this way as well and if the estate tax is really hitting family farms then it should be pretty easy to fix to accomodate that. (Though, as I recall from previous research, no family farm has ever been lost due to the estate tax.)
On another note Goldy, I take it from your frame comment that you are referring to Luntz’s ideas here. One question I have alway had on this, is it ok to use the other guy’s frame if you are trying to communicate a specific point to folks who are used to thinking in that frame?
In this case, Cantwell is trying to negate the presumptive charge that she is for the “DEATH TAX”. (read with big booming scary voice…)
By arguing within their frame she can quickly communicate the idea that she is not, with the logical and reality based idea that the only problem with the estate tax is if it is hitting small businesses and family farms.
She is taking Republican rhetoric at its word. Is it effective? Does she advance their stealth tax cuts for the uber-rich by adopting the tax reform idea? I don’t know. But I can she why she does it.
Right. Millionaires are evil. Fortunately none of us here at HorsesAss are millionaires nor do we want to be millionaires nor do we associate with millionaires nor do we want to have any close friends who are millionaires. There should be strict limits on what is attainable in America. We need folks like Goldy to set limits on the amounts of money Americans make. Without limits we get a society like, well, like contemporary America; a land without possibilities, a land that nobody wants to come to, a land full of misery and starvation and hopelessness, a land filled with sullen and angry socialists who go on the radio to rant against the rich and land that cannot support ipods…
This is a sort of “whole loaf, half a loaf” type political stuff. If Democrats are going to be peeved by Cantwell’s statement, they oughta know that the Dems stopped the GOP in their main objective, the elimination of the Paris Hilton Surcharge. The Dems probably can’t stop a watered down bill, so they’re showing they’re willing to deal. I doubt deficit hawks like Sen. Dorgan (D-ND) are going to allow the GOP to explode the deficit even more.
This entire ‘frame’ controversy highlights why the Republifucks had such a hatred of Bill Clinton, and why they called him ‘slick willie’. . .he could use THEIR rhetoric and buzz words against them to devastating effect. An interesting game for Cantwell. . .but she lacks some of Bill’s attributes to pull this off seamlessly.
“4” DAS…….Bravo! Bravo!
For we shall simply not allow any
Millionaires….
and especially any
Billionaires…
in this land of Liberalism….”of course unless
they are in the mold of Al Gorish, and Michale “M” Borish”…
To hell with the likes of “Howard Hughes” we shall have none of the extraordinary people who are not afraid to actually achieve on their own. We must have “pure dependence” on the liberals in this country.
And furthermore!
We shall not at any time soon allow, allow any, whatsoever words of praise on this site, no congratulations whatsoever, for the monumental achievment of our US forces in Iraq, in their brilliant wiping forever from the face of this great earth, the most senior leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the scourge of Iraq and it’s continued road to freedom!
To kill Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, U.S. forces first found his spiritual adviser.
Then they waited patiently ……..
Then they tracked the adviser for weeks, until he met Iraq’s most-wanted man Wednesday night in a village north of Baghdad……..
As the two huddled in a farmhouse…………….
Ah Ha
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
A Kick ass F-16 warplane blasted the Shit outta them with two 500-pound bombs
Bravo! Bravo!
Election year….appeal to as many voters as possible…
2010 will be a good year for millionaires and billionaires to die. There will be no death tax at all for people who die in 2010.
If you die in 2006 to 2008, only $2 million is exempt from the death tax, and the remainder is taxed at 45% or 46%. If you die in 2009, only $3.5 million is exempt from the death tax, and the remainder is taxed at 45%.
But die in 2010, and there is no death tax whatsoever.
Wait until 2011, and the death tax exemption is only $1 million, with the remainder being taxed at 55%.
Too bad that Frank Blethen doesn’t retain me for estate planning advice … :)
Maybe Roger Rabbit is worth more than a million dollars and could be persuaded to follow my estate planning advice … :)
GREGOIRE AND MALENG IGNORED CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE FOR SEVEN YEARS — CHARGES FINALLY FILED
A Redmond man who was a foster father will be charged today with raping and molesting children — including his adopted daughter, now a 12-year-old, police said Thursday.
The 52-year-old man, who was arrested Wednesday evening, will face two counts each of child rape, child molestation, sex with a minor and indecent liberties, along with possession of child pornography and stolen property.
“This is just the beginning of the story,” Redmond police spokeswoman Stacey Holland said. “There’s a huge amount of evidence to go through.”
The man adopted his daughter when she was a baby, Holland said. The other reported victims, both female, were about 11 or 12 years old when they were the man’s foster children in 1999. They are now 18 and 19. …
Police found child pornography, videotapes, photographs and computer records, much of which contained images of the man’s daughter and foster children.
The charges will be for alleged crimes dating back to 1999. From 1999 to 2005, several reports were made to Child Protective Services regarding the man, including sexual abuse, physical abuse and neglect.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/.....her09.html
Tamas said complaints of the abuse were “basically ignored” by DSHS officials. Probable-cause documents being filed with King County prosecutors by Redmond police indicate 26 complaints to DSHS while the children were in Fabregas’ care.
Spears said the allegations from 2002-04 brought forward to her agency — at least eight of which were sexual in nature — were investigated thoroughly, but that all came back with the same conclusion: There wasn’t enough evidence to substantiate the claims.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.c.....er09e.html
I-920 contributions are now at $276,779.00. Martin Selig has given another $120,000.00 since May 1, bringing his total to $137,500.00. During this same time period, George Suddock tossed in another $8,000.00, David & Linda Vandepol $10,000.00, and Charles Pigott $10,000.00.
Looks like Goldy’s prediction of I-920’s demise are premature.
http://www.horsesass.org/index.php?p=1630
After all, the efforts to repeal Washington’s death tax are being led by a retired police officer, Dennis Falk, and not by a crooked watch salesman.
WHERE IS DEAN LOGAN??
WHY DID DEAN DUCK THE MOST IMPORTANT MEETING ABOUT HIS HISTORIC FORCED VOTE-BY-MAIL PROPOSAL FOR KING KOUNTY???
IS DEAN:
(A) AT A CONFERENCE
(B) WORKING ON A “SECRET” PROJECT IN SOME “SECRET” LOCATION.
(C) ON VACTION PORTKING KLUELESS
(D) ABDUCTED BY SPACE ALIEN RELATIVES AND TAKEN BACK TO HIS HOME PLANET, ALPHA CENTAURA
(E) EATEN BY JACOB METCALF
Eaten by Jacob Metcalf???
Richard, are those the rates for the Federal Death Tax or the State’s Death Tax?
Anybody else notice that virtually no one comments on Sharky’s blog anymore? Could it be that no one reads it? You have to admit his posts are dull goose poop. And his topics are as predictable as rain on the 4th of July.
To sg @16 – Neither, death isn’t taxed, only very large estates when they pass to their heirs.
Karl @1,
First of all, we’re talking about two different estate taxes, WA state’s and the federal government’s.
Second, to understand Cantwell’s statement you have to understand the way Republicans bizarrely wrote the estate tax reform back in 2001. They fazed it out over ten years, after which the tax would revert to 2000 levels, when the amount of the exemption was only $675,000.
I think most people would agree that $675,000 in year 2011 dollars is simply two low an exemption. The proper exemption level is probably about where we are now — $2 million — adjusted for inflation.
Richard @9,
45% and 46% are the top tax rates from 2006 to 2008; the rate actually starts at 18%. I don’t have the table in front of me, but it is misleading to imply that the remainder above the exemption is taxed at those rates. But I’m guessing you knew that.
what more proof do you people need to know the ASS Party is as soiled as the Elephant Party…get with it sheeple and start to vote against these people…Democrates are not the answer…they are part of the problem
45% and 46% are the top tax rates from 2006 to 2008; the rate actually starts at 18%. I don’t have the table in front of me, but it is misleading to imply that the remainder above the exemption is taxed at those rates. But I’m guessing you knew that.
Commentby Goldy— 6/9/06@ 8:09 am
Yes, the first $10,000 of the estate is taxed at 18%. The next $10,000 is taxed at 20%. Total death taxes on the first $2,000,000 are $780,800, with everything over $2,000,000 taxed at 47%.
However, there is a “credit” against the death tax in the amount of $780,800 for 2006. Which means that the first $2,000,000 is exempt from the death tax, and everything else pays 47%.
For 2005, the death tax “credit” is only $555,800 — making the first $1,500,000 exempt, the next $500,000 taxed at 45%, and everything else taxed at 47%.
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i706.pdf at page 4
So it is MISLEADING to claim that the federal death tax starts at 18%, when all of the lower bracket tax rates are meaningless due to the death tax “credit”.
Again, many are buying into the notion that “death” is taxed. The estate tax has been around in it’s Federal form for most of the last century. This tax didn’t seem to deter the huge economic expansion of the last 60 years.
Why many commentors feel my child should be given “free” money, and then be able to invest it and be only taxed a 15% capital gain, is beyond me. Since I would be in the 36-39% tax bracket in order to accumulate more than 3 million dollars, (which would be taxed) why wouldn’t unearned income be taxed at the same rate?
You republicans feel that everyone should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, except for your kids. Those childern that could afford good neighborhoods, good schools, great higher education, already have a leg up on kids going to Cleveland High School (check the graduation rates).
Several of the Founding Fathers’ felt that inherited wealth was the greatest threat to democracy. This Country was founded in part as a rejection of the European Feudal system. How could the sons’ of peasants compete with the sons’ of Kings?
I’d love to see an Ann Coulter versus Hiitlery Debate! When Hillary decided to ‘proclaim’ that Ann Coulter was being Mean to the 9/11 Women, Ann immediately responded with the Fact that if Hillary wanted to see someone who was Mean to Women, she need look no further than her own husband, who reportedly had raped Juanita Broadrick ..sp?.. and also hit on Kathleen Willey at the same time when Willey’s husband was committing suicide.
Take That, Hillary!
Would it also be reasonable to do away with farm subsidies for corporate farms. If the idea is to save tax dollars being uselessly spent and get rid of a free money deal that saps the will of American corporations to actually opoerate in a “free market” then, for patriotic reasons alone, I am in favor of it!!!
re 23: If you repeated that slander in front of me I’d make you take it back — or else!
If Hillary Clinton is such a shoo-in for her party’s 2008 presidential nomination, then a new Florida poll is something for Democrats to worry about. More than 30 months before the 2008 election, Sen. Clinton can’t get more than 50 percent of the vote when matched against two unknown Republican candidates? And, given Florida’s key role in the Electoral College, the new survey almost certainly will provide more fodder…
The poll is not accurate! The dead, felons, and illegal voters, plus the “Upper East Side New York/ Miam, Palm Beach double voters” were not asked and they always vote straight Democratic.
Gorditos de los Alberto [25], Into the border patrol van!! NOW!!!
Taxing someone who inherits even a million dollars is fair. You would have to work for ten years making $100,000 dollara a year to get $1,ooo,ooo million dollars — and you’d be taxed every step of the way.
How is it , then, unfair to tax someone who doesn’t even work for the money, but inherits it? So the guy who works ten years for his million gets his ass taxed off and everyone sees that as fair, but if the guy who sat on his big, fat Republican Keester gets taxed for DOING NOTHING and inheriting money then it’s unfair?
Undeserved privilege is anathema to Democracy. Whether privilege from wealth, or position, or birth. Our democracy was born from a love of merit and excellence.
Clinging to the corrupt ‘ideal’ of class, wealth and privilege bear the bitter fruits of disasters such as Katrina and the ongoing devastation of the Gulf States.
Just a reminder that the hero of the right, Lush Flimbaugh is pissing into a cup in front of his probation officer today. A great example for the youth of America. Oh, and by the way, today is the day that the coward and quitter, Tommy (I’m Going Down) DeLay is GONE from Congress! HE HE!
ANN COULTER CHALLENGES PRESIDENT OF IRAN TO INSANE COMMENT CONTEST
Conservative Pundit, Iranian Madman to Face Off on Live TV
Conservative pundit Ann Coulter today challenged Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to what she called “an insane comment contest” on live TV to determine who is the insane comment champion of the world.
Appearing on Fox News this morning, the sharp-tongued darling of the right wing said that while she respects Mr. Ahmadinejad’s work, she believes he will be “no match” for her arsenal of crazy, unhinged remarks.
“I’ve heard Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s nutty rants in the past, and while I think he comes off like a total bananahead, in a one-on-one with me he will be the picture of sanity,” Ms. Coulter said.
In Iran, President Ahmadinejad accepted Ms. Coulter’s challenge and said that while he was “confident of victory” he recognized that besting her in an insane comment contest “would not be easy.”
“In any competition involving verbal lunacy, Ann Coulter is the favorite going in,” Mr. Ahmadinejad. “I will need to train for this for months.”
But even as the rules for the insane comment contest were being set, North Korean president Kim Jong-Il and televangelist Pat Robertson expressed outrage that they had been excluded from the competition and demanded to be invited.
Within hours, Ms. Coulter apologized for omitting President Kim and the Rev. Robertson but said that the omission would be corrected: “Me, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Pat Robertson and Kim Jong-Il: that’s the Final Four.”
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Anybody worth $3-5 million is not a “little guy.” A “little guy” is a wage earner living on $5 to $10 an hour.
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Das, you are a dolt! The problem is not how much money people have, per se, but what they do to get it.
Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA) is the next name to surface as a subject of scrutiny by federal investigators, Roll Call reports today. Late last month, the FBI pulled his financial disclosure records from Congress. The paper says the inquiry is an outgrowth of the Cunningham investigation.
The republican culture of corruption just keeps getting deeper!
Roger@32 – Heck, I’d argue that $20/hr with a family of 4 still qualifies as “little guy” – especially if health insurance for that family of 4 comes out of the paycheck.
Take Bill Gates, for example. He’s just a guy who, as a freckle-faced prep school kid, invented a wonderful operating system that made modern computing possible and spawned a vast industry, right? Wrong. Gates did not invent BASIC; he bought it cheap. Then he employed the most ruthless business tactics imaginable to crush competitors and establish a monopoly, which was the only way he could have foisted his inferior products on the world. Windows was so bad, it inspired programmers to write alternative operating systems and give them away free. Gates was successfully sued for antitrust violations. The guy got rich by being a thug.
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I agree that $20 an hour doesn’t make a person prosperous; that’s roughly entry level for “middle class.”
But a million dollars is still a lot of money, in most people’s frame of reference. Even in today’s devalued dollars, if you have a net worth of a million, you are richer than 95% of the U.S. population. Not Rolls-Royce or baronial castle or megayacht rich, but rich enough that you don’t have to work for a living or worry about how to pay for medical care.
To Unkl Witz @ 17
And has anybody noticed that a very large percentage of posts on this blog consists of nothing more than name-calling, profanity, and otherwise meaningless comments? Quatity, perhaps; quality, doubtful.
I bet it was Rabbit Pellets: “Republican U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave’s re-election campaign was already heated, and it just got smelly as well: Her staff accused a Democratic activist Thursday of leaving an envelope full of dog feces at Musgrave’s Greeley office.
Musgrave spokesman Shaun Kenney said someone stuffed the envelope through the mail slot in the door on May 31 and then sped away in a car. Kenney said most of the preprinted return address was blacked out, but staffers used the nine-digit ZIP code to trace it to Kathleen Ensz, a Weld County Democratic volunteer.”
I am upset at how Nancy Pelosi and Steny Moyer are treating a black congressman. Democraps are mean, racist and nasty.
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2....._0524.html
http://www.newsmax.com/archive.....1747.shtml
I thought the congressional rule is if indicted then they resign? Democraps don’t follow rules. How ’bout that frozen cash?
Democraps play the race card! WHy do you donks like to do this all the time?
http://www.amren.com/mtnews/ar.....cus_to.php
Donk all over America use illegal means to get votes:
“Francine Busby easily finished first in the April nonpartisan primary, winning 44 percent of the vote, while Mr. Bilbray, a former congressman, finished second with just 15 percent of the vote. In the special election, Mr. Bilbray got 48.5 percent, while Mrs. Busby bettered her share in the
first round of voting by just one percentage point.
The election splashed onto front pages and flashed onto conservative Internet sites and talk radio over the weekend after Mrs. Busby took a question from a Hispanic man during a campaign event last Thursday.
“I want to help, but I don’t have papers,” the man said in Spanish. After a translation of the question, the Democrat replied, “Everybody can help, yeah, absolutely, you can all help. You don’t need papers for voting, you don’t need to be a registered voter to help.”
Even trying to get illegals to vote didn’t help her. It probably cost her the election. This statement WILL BE PLAYED in the fall! You donks NEVER learn!
Puddy Kennedy posted the last four messages. Rabbit Pellet will hump his armadillo now!
Getting back (AHEM!) to the original subject, the more I think about it, the more it seems there ought to be some sort of mechanism to prevent the estate tax (and maybe other things, like maybe divorces) from destroying worthwhile institutions. A lot of things I hear and read about Frank Blethen suggest he has a personality like a chainsaw on a feeding frenzy, but the man has a point–without the Blethen Family (or some local interested party) retaining majority ownership, the Times will probably become some half-assed, cookie-cutter affialite of News Corp or Gannett. I don’t mind the tax man taking a cut when someone dies and their heirs are going to each take their cut and head for the tall timber anyway, but if it means breaking up a company or foundation that serves a social or economic purpose and/or keeps a lot of employees in groceries, it would be nice to preserve it. Not to say that accomplishing this wouldn’t be messy or difficult (like how to go about determining “worthiness”), but hell, a little idealism ought to be tossed into political discourse every now and then.
I am upset at how Nancy Pelosi and Steny Moyer are treating a black congressman. Democraps are mean, racist and nasty.
I thought the congressional rule is if indicted then they resign? Democraps don’t follow rules.
Commentby Puddybud Robert Kennedy Jr.— 6/9/06@ 10:13 am
The Democrats want to remove Dollar Bill Jefferson from his committee assignments, even though he hasn’t been charged with anything.
The normal rule is that someone is removed only from leadership positions — and not committee assignments — and that none of this is done until someone has been indicted. Dollar Bill hasn’t been indicted yet, even though his freezer was raided nearly a year ago.
I also am upset at how Nancy Pelosi and Steny Moyer are treating a black congressman. Democraps are mean, racist and nasty.
I thought the congressional rule is if indicted then they resign? Democraps don’t follow rules. Are Democrats racists??
To my fellow Kennedys: Have a great weekend. To the commie libs: William J Jefferson, DEMOCRAT, LA
Last night, on Greta van Sustrend’s show, “On the Record,” it was reported that the stripper’s driver, Left Turn, said prior to the Duke party, he had taken her to a hotel where she stripped and used a vibrator to masturbate for a man and woman.
If this case can survive past a directed verdict of acquittal, I will be dumbfounded.
I fail to see how taxing an estate’s heirs is somehow hurting “the little guy” who “worked hard all his life.” To begin with, the tax doesn’t even kick in on an ordinary middle-class estate. I just don’t get how all the conservative “pull yourself up by your own bootstraps” rhetoric fits in with whining because a millionaire’s kids will “only” inherit half a million instead of a million. Isn’t it better to tax someone who is DEAD, who doesn’t need the money, than someone living, who can perhaps still put the money to use? What did said millionaire’s kids do to earn the money, other than exist? Why is it unfair that Paris Hilton only inherits 15 zillion dollars instead of 30 zillion? I just don’t get that.
49: In all other circumstances, you will merely be found dumb.
51, She be black, and those white boys were “dissin”, so Jesse will need lots of JACK to let this one go. Pay up, white boys! Da ho needs da jack!!
51, wayne, William J Jefferson, DEMOCRAT, LA [hehe]
Bill Frist, Tom DeLay, Sefavian ( Deals with terrorists ) Grover Norquist is married to a terrorist!
54, Exactly what crimes have Bill Frist and Tom DeLay been convicted? Exactly? Now, I told you, GET IN THE BORDER PATROL VAN!!! No welfare, foodstamps, free education for you. Have your 12 babies in Mexico!
Bottom line [CA 50]: No illegal dead, Mexican, illegal alien or felon votes, no win for the Democrats. If an ID is needed to vote, the Dems lose [except in REP Cinthia Mckinney, DEMOCRAT, GA and REP William J Jefferson’s, DEMOCRAT, LA district]
“Air America will continue to grow.”
Commentby Tree Frog Farmer [………………………………………………………………………………Er, Tree Frog, Air America needed to steal money from poor black kids in New York City [Boys and Girls Club, chairperson Charles Rosensteinberg] to give Al Frankenbergstein his salary. Note the names, Treefrog. Goldy doesn’t have a lot to say about this. I wonder why.
An Iraqi customs agent secretly working with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s terror cell spilled the beans on the group after he was arrested, Jordanian officials tell ABC News. Ziad Khalaf Raja al-Karbouly was arrested by Jordanian intelligence forces last spring.
Dead man walking. ABC will report his death as a failure of the Bush Administration for not protecting this man.
Okay, the Feds will take around 45% of your estate, how much will Washington State take on top of the Feds? Another 40%?
Another 60%? Assuming that the estate is around 5 million will there be anything left for the heirs after the vultures have stripped the estate to the bones?
The Bush family worked with bin Laden to arrange 9.11. We all know it. Why not admit it? Why else would Monkey Face let the bin Ladens fly out of the country while the rest of us were grounded?
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“2010 will be a good year for millionaires and billionaires to die. There will be no death tax at all for people who die in 2010.”
2006 is a good year for Republicans to die … hey, I can daydream, can’t I?
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Mac, why don’t you look it up and get back to us.
Wikipedia uses a $3.5 million estate divided between two heirs in tax year 2005 as an example of how the estate tax works. In this case, the heirs receive over $1.2 million each, and pay an effective tax rate of 26.9%, which is very close to the marginal tax rate on a wage earner making $40,000 a year.
How is that unfair?
Historically, the federal government has spent about 18% to 22% of gross domestic product. If that were spread evenly over all individual taxpayers, we’d all be paying about a fifth of our income in federal taxes. If we ask someone inheriting half of $3.5 million to pay a fourth of their windfall in taxes, the wingnuts scream like stuck pigs. FUCK YOU!!!
Wingnuts = whiny crybabies
And, of course, if you inherit a $2 million estate in tax year 2006, you pay zip.
Go away, little whiny crybabies. Just go away and die.
Historically, the federal government has spent about 18% to 22% of gross domestic product. If that were spread evenly over all individual taxpayers, we’d all be paying about a fifth of our income in federal taxes. If we ask someone inheriting half of $3.5 million to pay a fourth of their windfall in taxes, the wingnuts scream like stuck pigs. FUCK YOU!!!
Commentby Roger Rabbit— [………………………………………………………………….50% of American pay no income taxes al all. ALL of these individuals believe others should pay more. These people are called Democrat “progressives”. hehe, JCH Kenendy]
Go to hotair.com for some fun, celebratory footage re the Zarkawi news.
The whole Zarkawi thing is more than likely another Buch regime lie, just like WMD. If the only proof we have of Zarkawi’s death comes from republicans…it’s bullshit not to be believed. I bet the dude was either:
1) Dead along time ago through no connection to Bush
2) Still alive and Bush hopes this will take attention off the Marines killing innocent women and children
A former state senator who was caught on videotape taking a stack of money from an FBI informant was convicted Thursday of extortion. Roscoe Dixon, a Memphis Democrat, was among five current or former state lawmakers charged with taking payoffs from a fake company set up by the FBI to catch corrupt lawmakers.
Two decades after cocaine killed U-Md. basketball star Len Bias, a candlelight vigil spotlights the toll of drug abuse. -snip- Called a Vigil for Lost Promise, the ceremony outside the headquarters of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration came 11 days before the anniversary of Bias’s death on June 19, 1986.
Bias’ mother and about 200 other parents were there to memoralize theirs and 36,000 others who are losing their lives to drugs each year. ……………………………………………………………………………. Remember when Mrs. Bias threatened law suits against the Boston Celtics et al [using the Lawfirm of Silverstein, Goldstein, Stein, Rosenstein, and Loeb, ESQ] for the claim that Len used drugs. Later the blood tsts revealed that Len used enough coke to kill an elephant. As usual, Mrs. Bias is black, so the facts did not matter.
Intelligence from cell phone technology helped U.S. forces find and kill Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, said an Iraqi army colonel Friday in an exclusive interview with CNN. Col. Dhiya Tamimi said he worked with U.S. forces to monitor al-Zarqawi and his associates’ cell phones, helping to lead to Wednesday night’s airstrike on a safe house near Baquba. [………………………………………………………………….The Democrats and the ACL Jew are filing suit as we speak for the violation of al-Zarqawi’s cell phone privacy rights!!!!]
Bushwent @ 70: Do you REALLY honestly believe your bullets 1 & 2? I mean, REALLY believe it?? Yes or no?
Roger, I could comprise for 26.9, that is reasonable, as a matter of fact, if it was taxed like regular income, I could go for that too!
My problem with it is the astromical amounts that people cite, like 45 for the feds and another 40 or more for Washington State on top of it.
My understanding of the estate tax is that it also takes top value estimates for all property too, like houses, land, art work, jewelry, etc. That’s when heirs have to liquidate all of the assets to pay the damn taxes. Washington state did exempt farms……..
“All taxes are good.” Karl Marx and Hillary Clinton
Rabbit,
Why pick a fight with me? I’ve tried to assure you of your brilliance many times over. I’ve admitted that only government can really generate wealth and that individual initiative is nothing but an illusion and that the more control the government has over our lives the better. So take it easy. I can only hope to survive to live under your benificent munificent reign of governance; we need brutal yet compassionate people like you to make sure that men who work all their lives to achieve prosperity and security for their kids do not harbor any illusions of passing on money to those kids after death. The state is all, after all.
In sum: people who have a lot of money are inherently selfish and evil people and they must be cut down to size; we need pure souls like Goldy to do the cutting.
das @ 78
“In sum: people who have a lot of money are inherently selfish and evil people and they must be cut down to size; we need pure souls like Goldy to do the cutting.”
Your statement foolish and amounts to little more than a child’s analysis.
It is not about judging anyone as “inherently selfish” or “evil.” The rich pay more taxes because (1) they get a greater benefit out of a strong government and (2) poorer people must use a larger fraction of their income to meet basic needs.
dj,
re: (1) How is it the rich get greater benefit out of a strong government? What does that mean? A government made strong by plundering the rich? And the rich are supposed to see this as a benefit? I don’t get it.
re: (2) And?
p.s. Thanks for writing a post without the word “fuck” in it. I knew you could express yourself like an educated person.
There should be no estate tax. People, when they pass on,have the absolute right to leave the entire amount of whatever they have to whatever person(s)or entiites that they stipulate in their wills. The government has a right to nothing.
Estate taxation is just an excuse to seize wealth to fund wet-dream social programs, military adventures overseas, and a big, bloated federal government. I’m for ending estate taxes permanently. If rich white liberals think there should be an estate tax, then they’re free to will all their assets to the government. Rich neo-socialsit liberals: put you money where your mouthes are. Otherwise, SHUT-UP!
A man who was beaten by employees of a store he was trying to rob is now suing. Police say Dana Buckman entered the AutoZone in Rochester, New York, last July, brandished a semi-automatic pistol and demanded cash. That’s when employees Eli Crespo and Jerry Vega beat him with a pipe and held Buckman at bay with his own gun. He sentenced to 18 years in prison as a repeat violent felon. [………………………………………………………………………….Silverstein, Stein, Goldstein, and Lowenstein, ESQ is representing the young felon Democrat!!]