[demosthenes the elder]

the URL for these jackanapes is: http://www.responsiblewealth.com

Please, FReep their pants off!

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[bigfootbob]

The dirty little secret about this is because they are well to do, they can afford to insure their estates and take advantage of our convoluted tax code to benefit their bottom line come April 15th.

[expatpat]

They are wrong about a broad concentration of wealth. Long before estate taxes were invented, families would go from riches to rags, usually due to dissolute sons and grandsons wasting their inheritances.

[isthisnickcool]

What business is it of Bill Gates Sr. to demand that others keep paying a certain tax? He is welcome to pay the tax if it is repealed. If it's such a good idea he can give all or most of the money he has right now to the gov't tomorrow. Ya think he will? Nah!

Typical liberal pukes. Spending money that is not theirs on things that have nothing to do with them.

There is a reason we are called "the right". It's because we usually are "right" about most things. And the stupid ideas, like this one, is what's "left".

[Auntie Dem]

Here's an idea that would make these rich hypocrites put their money where there mouth is. The tax law could be changed to allow an estate the option to elect to not be subject to the estate tax repeal, and all those thus electing would be publicized by the IRS. The size of the estate or the actual tax paid would not necessarily be publiced, just the fact they elected to be taxed. Since current tax law prevents the IRS from disclosing who pays taxes, or how much, a new law would allow the "to be taxed" election to be public. My guess is we would not see any of these santimonious rich basker's names on the list.

[stylin19a]

I'm thinking just the opposite. Float the trial ballon that the dollar level for applying the "death tax" will be lowered to $100,000, no exceptions/exemptions.

Watch these yahoos jump straight up and straight down.

[Bullish]

Moyers is a lunatic.

[dyed_in_the_wool]

Let the death-tax live on in a new form, one which only hammers those who inherit over 100,000,000 2003 US dollars in mixed assets.

Please tell me you'd index that for inflation...please.
Because you know that won't be that much money in 25-30 years.

[Destructor]

"They keep spouting inanities about concentrations of wealth, about how the end of the death tax will create an american aristocracy and a huge sea of penniless serfs."

I thought the Liberal Dimocrats are our aristocracy