Senate to vote on estate tax next week, proceeds = cost of Iraq war

[TeddyKGB]

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/050905ta_talk_hertzberg

... what has been from the beginning, and remains, the Bush Administration’s top priority, not excluding fighting terrorism: the use of the tax code to transfer wealth to the rich and, especially, the superrich. Next week, even as the national debt grows by another $11 billion and military recruiters scramble with ever-mounting desperation to fill their quotas, the Senate will reassemble to take up the proposal, already passed by the House, to permanently eliminate the estate tax, thereby shifting some $1.5 billion a week—about the same as the Iraq war—from the public treasury to the bank accounts of the heirs to the nation’s twenty thousand biggest fortunes...

Contact your Senator NOW.

- TeddyKGB

[aquart]

1. These people are dangerously insane.

[xray s]

2. Senate Democrats damn well better fillibuster this!

Reid has already told Frist to withdraw it and use the money to shore up programs in the US.

Stop this obscene piece of shit legislation!

[TeddyKGB]

3. Will Pitt...paging Will Pitt...

C'mon, people - this is serious; we need a major push behind it.