Governor Palin: Here Is What Quietly Happened On January 1, 2015

conservatives4palin.com ^ | 7 August, 2016 | Sarah Palin

[9YearLurker]

That estate tax data is off.

[Loud Mime]

My mother is 93 years-old now. She’s astute and still is a news hound. When Roberts ruled it was a tax she went back in her clipping files (you do not want to see her bedroom - boxes of magazines and newspapers) and showed me where the Democrats said it was a tax.

Good thing is that it can be repealed.

[ScaniaBoy]

I think that was noted and corrected already in post #2.

[ScaniaBoy]

Good on your Mother. Wish her many happy returns.

What astounds me is that the US seems full of conservative, astute, well-read, intelligent people. How then can your representatives in the Congress fail time and time again? With a few exceptoions they don’t seem to be the sharpest tools in the drawer.

[9YearLurker]

No, that post was correcting other errors.

Here is the current info on estate tax rates:

http://www.fool.com/retirement/general/2015/12/18/2016-estate-tax-rates.aspx

[onedoug]

Freedom, eh?

[Sir Napsalot]

Thanks to Chief Justice Tyrant Roberts who single-handedly redefined those penalties as taxes and thus deemed it Constitutional.

[Sir Napsalot]

Thanks to Chief Justice Tyrant Roberts who single-handedly redefined those penalties as taxes and thus deemed it Constitutional.

[CyberAnt]

And .. if you want to watch the whole speech, you can go to C-SPAN and find a replay of the whole speech.

As a head’s up, they usually don’t allow a long play of any applause - unless of course you’re a liberal.

[Drago]

I wish people would fact check their “memes” before posting them & they go “viral”/are passed along the FB chain. For one, the last one listed is a “Medicare surtax of 3.8%”...not a “transaction tax”. See:

http://moneyover55.about.com/od/taxtips/a/Medicare-3-8-Tax-What-Is-It-And-How-Will-It-Affect-You.htm

and

http://realtormag.realtor.org/law-and-ethics/feature/article/2014/03/tax-updates-you-should-know

[publius911]

but these tax increases were built into the Affordable Care Act of 2009, and the republican congress had never tried to change it.

Change it?

Hell, they didn't even read it!

[CyberAnt]

You can also watch it at C-SPAN.

[CyberAnt]

They lie when they’re campaigning .. we are just too busy to check out what they say .. and they count on that.

[hattend]

How did it pass without a Pubbie vote? Didn’t the Pubs own Congress in 2014?

[ScaniaBoy]

You really should ask someone else. As far as I have found out several of these tax increases took place in 2013 and not 2015. However, Congress was in the Pub's hands then as well. They just did not fight I guess, given that these tax increases were included in the already passed ACA.

Or as publius911 wrote above: Change it? Hell, they didn't even read it!