Let Them Eat Estate Tax Repeal
By on Sep 7th, 2005 at 2:51 pm
Let Them Eat Estate Tax Repeal
What’s the best way to help the roughly 12 million residents who live in the states impacted by Hurricane Katrina, including hundreds of thousands of families who are now displaced and homeless?
Repeal the estate tax, which in 2003 was paid by a whopping 709 people in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama combined. That’s the line from the American Family Business Institute, the “nation’s leading advocacy group for death tax repeal.” On Monday, they issued a release saying “it is entirely appropriate for the Senate to focus all its energy on disaster relief” — then called on the Senate to “immediately and retroactively” repeal the estate tax for victims of Hurricane Katrina. How thoughtful.
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Maybe if the American Family Business Institute vowed to cover the tax payments of these poor rich people, what they say may have more impact on me.
Till then, they can suck flood water (look out for the coliform bateria).
September 7th, 2005 at 2:56 pmAs President Bush and the GOP seek to end estate levies in America, the levees in New Orleans crumbled and a city was destroyed on their watch.
For the sad story, see:
“New Orleans Pays the Death Tax.”
September 7th, 2005 at 3:04 pmLets not forget that the best long term strategy for things of this nature is wrestling control of the house back so legislation like this isn’t even introduced. Support local congressional candidates tooth and nail.
Taking Back the House in 2006: http://www.carneyforcongress.com/“>Carney for Congress
September 7th, 2005 at 3:04 pmOK…let’s repeal it for thoes making UNDER $80,000 a year.
September 7th, 2005 at 3:05 pmRepublicans don’t give a f%&k about the American people unless those people can be classified as ‘Ranger’ or ‘Pioneer’……Exxon/Mobil and Chevron/Texaco are going to be allowed to suck every last dime from us, not just at the pump but thanks to the Bushies with billions of dollars in tax breaks.
Is it time to look for a new place to call home?
September 7th, 2005 at 3:08 pmThis move is pure political opportunism, trying to get a favorite agenda item passed while people are preoccupied. As I suggested recently on my own website, the most appropriate gesture the Republican leadership could make toward the victims of Katrina right now would be to table discussion of ending the estate tax in favor of using its proceeds for disaster relief and recovery until we’re a first-world nation again. Because it’s reasonable and compassionate, though, it’s the last thing they’d consider.
September 7th, 2005 at 3:13 pmAnother opportunity for the republican skels to drown more babies in the bathtub.
Question, how many drown corpses does it take to carry the water from the GOP bathtub so the skels can drown these babies?
September 7th, 2005 at 3:27 pmI have seen no news, or seen any blogs reporting on the banking industry in NOLA.
Does anyone know what is going on in that sector?
September 7th, 2005 at 3:39 pm“Supply-Side Disaster Relief”
http://moxnews.blogspot.com/
September 7th, 2005 at 3:42 pmIt is so sad to see this. It means absolutely nothing. It is the Senate wasting time and trying to “buffalo” the American public. Which, even more sad, is that they eat it up. They mention “farmers losing their farm.” Come on, stand up, come on now, who believes this? Can anyone justify this? It is the Paris Hilton tax cut and will hurt the poor ONLY. As it stands anyone under a MILLION dollars will not be subject to this tax. Anyone? Millionaries? Then PAY for your share. GREEDY
September 7th, 2005 at 3:47 pmMaybe the republican skels are correct, we should “shoot the looters”. Fu*king republican skels.
September 7th, 2005 at 3:49 pmI can’t remember who posted it yesterday, but it needs to be called the “Paris Hilton Relief Bill”, paid for by the Katrina Dead who no longer need social security or food stamps.
September 7th, 2005 at 3:53 pmWhen you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.
September 7th, 2005 at 4:15 pm–J. Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known, pp.51-52
Hold on to your hats folks, here it goes, you democracy is dead, or soon will be.
BUSH HAS ORDERED ALL MEDIA TO BE “EVACUATED” FROM NOLA.
As I am writing this reports are coming in that modes of transporation are being confiscated from the media.
Thats all I know right now.
September 7th, 2005 at 4:18 pmGOP strategy laid out by Katrina (the one we like):
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut?bid=7&pid=20206
September 7th, 2005 at 4:31 pmFreedom of the press?…..we just lost it again.
September 7th, 2005 at 4:31 pmWe could evaporate them. Problem solved.
September 7th, 2005 at 4:56 pmAs we can clearly see, they are struggling and desperate. It is comical how obvious they are and sad that some don’t see it. In good time, all and all in good time. They can’t keep dancing as fast as they can for too long. HA! They will crack and eventually even the trolls and sheeple will start scratching their heads. I must believe this.
September 7th, 2005 at 5:02 pmNever let them see the dead. It’s so much harder to steal their dollars, wage war(profiteering) and remove the social safety net when they can’t see the rotting bodies and the flag-draped coffins on TV.
Truth and democracy buried side by side on the White House lawn. Rove and Cheney holding the shovels.
September 7th, 2005 at 5:41 pmWe should consistently refer to the estate tax as the “multimillionaire’s tax” or a “tax on the transfers of very large estates.” That is what it is. Next year it applies only to estates of $2 million or over (hence “multimillionaires”) and the year prior to its expiration (2009) it applies only to estates over $3.5 million. Either point is a more-than-generous place for a freeze.
This is yet another instance of Bush preferring to deal with a problem that is years off rather than deal with the problems in the here and now.
September 7th, 2005 at 6:13 pmFEMA has disallowed tv cameras tophotograph the bodies of dead, and they have denied requests for the media cameras to accompany them on searches through the homes and residences.
September 7th, 2005 at 6:18 pmThis is just too “sensitive” for Americans to see. They forget that three versions of CSI are the most popular tv shows for the past couple of years.
We are witnessing the deliberate deconstrution of democracy as we know it.
The fascists have arrived.
When I was listening to C-Span today, there was a representive asked where are we going to get the money.
His suggestion was repeal the drugs for the seniors.
I have some suggestion of my own.
1. Repeal the tax cuts for the rich.
September 7th, 2005 at 8:55 pm2. Take back the raises the congress got.
3. Repeal all the pork the congress put through.
4. Repeal The tax breaks they gave to the Energy and
Transportation Companies.
If your computer can play little web-movies, go to http://ecolanguage.net/ and scroll down to “The Bush Tax Cuts.†It’s a 14-minute flowchart animation, showing the distribution of income and wealth BEFORE and AFTER the Bush tax cuts 2001 – 2003.
The distribution of the estate tax is pictured in “Social Security: The Real Connections.”
September 7th, 2005 at 9:46 pm[...] From Think Progress: [...]
September 7th, 2005 at 9:47 pmTax increases (especially on the wealthy) are almost always economic catalysts – whereas tax cuts are almost always economic crashers. This is why every republican president except one has had a recession, whereas the majority of democratic presidents have had economic booms and improving economies…
Greedy and selfish people want to delude themselves that taxes are ‘bad’ for the economy – when in reality their greed is what’s actually bad for the economy. The ‘truth’ is that right-wing politicians want to use the big deficits generated by tax cuts as an excuse to slash social insurance programs. They are willing to take down the economy, our standard of living, and our economic stability so they don’t have to pay taxes that they think just MIGHT go to a poor person. They’re pathetic lying worms…
September 8th, 2005 at 12:50 amMimikatz: how about “mansion tax”?
September 8th, 2005 at 8:18 amSo pitiful!! Watching all of you gnash your teeth while hypocritically wringing your sweaty hands together (no doubt from all that volunteerism aimed at Katrina victims) is typical. Anticipating the “revolt of the revulsed” is politics in it’s the lowest form. Thank you!
September 8th, 2005 at 3:46 pm[...] If they happened to pay the estate tax, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) wants to know. [That’s going to be tough. The tax was paid in 2003 by just 709 people in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama combined.] 7:25 pm | Comment (0) [...]
September 17th, 2005 at 7:25 pm#25- Greedy people? LMAO! Don’t you hate those greedy people who take risks with their money and want a return on investment! Those BASTARDS! The French had it right! Bastille Day for New Orleans!!! RYAN for the Dem nomination in 08!
October 21st, 2005 at 8:39 pmTurk is not Marco, Turk is not Aphrodite