How many believe in responsibility here in paying their tab and how many believe they should run away from the bill like the liberal hearted slugs they are?
If you really feel that way, why not have the government take 100 percent of the estate? That would really help get that debt under control, and think of the creative ways the surplus could be wasted after it's paid off!
I don't know who here can call themselves conservatives if they are unwilling to pay that bill, or at least try to with money after their death when they wouldn't need it.
I can call myself a conservative -- I pay my debt every paycheck through withholding. As for my "need" of my money after death, I can probably think of a million uses better than letting the government waste it.
How many believe in responsibility here in paying their tab and how many believe they should run away from the bill like the liberal hearted slugs they are?
I'm sure most people reading and posting on Free Republic don't have an issue with paying their fair share, as long as it doesn't get thrown into a black hole of government waste.
I'd love to be free to spend my money as I see fit, not surrender a percentage to the government a hundred times a day through every financial transaction or phone call I make, or every time I drink a glass of water or flick a light switch.
Do you hire someone to buy you a car.....how much do you pay them to do that? 30%? The LESS money the GOVERNMENT has the BETTER.....and taxing people on their assets at DEATH is contemptible.....we pay taxes all of our lives. AND, the newly wealthy, i.e. women and minorities are going to be hardest hit, too....so think about what you are advocating. The Dynasties already have theirs (Buffet, Kennedy, Rockefeller, Gates) and will pay LITTLE to nothing....paying off the debt will then AGAIN be the JOB of the MIDDLE CLASS....whatever that is...but, we all kinda know what it is....it's US!
Speak for yourself, Ace. I pay my share and then some.
I pay far more than my "fair share".
I've paid my way, my families way and all my immediate relatives way and then some.
The government has gotten enough from me.
I really resent the implication you're making.
Pay the bill by eliminating the "earned income tax credit" which is nothing but welfare!
BTW, I don't believe in charity!
Everyone earn your own keep.