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Mike 03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-07-10 06:47 PM
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Random Question: Do any other Dems agree that the Death Tax is unfair?
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One issue I have wavered over is the estate tax (code name "death tax"). I see both pros and cons, but one thing I never hear discussed are the families that fall between being "poor" or "middle class" and those who are "rich" or "billionaires". You are either living in the projects or Warren Buffet.

I know from personal experience that there are many people who are neither poor nor rich, whose livelihood depends on the fertility of the land and who cannot withstand an estate tax that is more than fifty percent of that estate. I know it sounds ridiculous to say, for many people, but a million dollars is not really very much nowadays. It used to be. Ask your Congressperson if a million dollars is a lot of money and I am quite certain he/she will attempt any subterfuge necessary to plant the notion that earning a million is inconceivable. But it's not.

As Kurt Vonnegut used to say, "Think about it."
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