Washington Journal thread

[acmejack]

Now we have a caller claiming estate tax affected her and her sisters and her with her Dad's 1 million dollar estate.

[ShortnFiery]

1. Whoa! Someone just dropped the F bomb.

:blush:

His thoughts and heart were in the right place but he just got carried away. :shrug:

But hey, he's living in REALITY because he does not support repealing The Estate Tax. It saddens me that some right wing mis-informed poor people who don't have a pot to piss in, will call and say, "Well, I think they should keep ALL there money." What insanity! The poor right wing will not get their milk programs at school for their kids. They will slip into abject poverty ... all the while CHEERING on the ULTRA-WEALTHY.

Poor, mis-informed, wrongfully hateful of the wrong groups (those who wish to help you) is NO WAY TO GO THROUGH LIFE.

Hearing these poor right wing folks call to support the ultra-wealth is the ultimate in manipulation. This is real sick stuff. :thumbsdown:

[meegbear]

5. Care to give a rough transcript?

[acmejack]

6. I will try soon as I am back!

Gotta go feed the critters. brb!

[mrcheerful]

2. I liked the one who said the rich are being double and tripled taxed

when facts are these monies were never taxed to begin with, that myth was started by pukes. Oh no now we have a rich coal miner who used his coal mine wages to buy stocks and got rich and she will have to pay taxes on her inheritencing. Stupid freaks, ignore facts, 12,600 families are going to be effected this year with estate taxes, big deal. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr head exploding stupid freepers.

[liberaliraqvet26]

3. how do they get these ignorant working class fools.....

to enthusiastically support repealing the estate tax?? its insanity at its best.

[ShortnFiery]

4. NUTS! These idiots don't realize that The Estate Tax only effects

1/2 of 1 percent of the USA population. What? Do they think that their upper middle class bread winners will hit it big in the lotto soon?

The right wing draws them in with their hate of homosexuality and family planning rights. THEN, whatever trash Rove-Co spews forth, such as "The Estate tax is unfair" these willfully ignorant people take as gospel. Yes, they repeat the talking points like they're taking an oral test. :(

[LibDemAlways]

8. The repuke talking points about humble

farmers losing their livelihoods (total bullshit) because of the "death" tax resonates with these morons. Also, some are convinced the tax will get them when grandma passes on and they inherit her double-wide.

Repukes know exactly what buttons to push to get the ignorant masses on the wrong side of every issue.

[Captain Hilts]

7. Zuckerman has a GREAT column in today's NYDN...

He says:

The generation that emerged from World War II enjoyed income growth fairly evenly spread throughout our population. The past 25 years tell a different story. Median family incomes have risen by less than 1% a year - for a total of 18% overall - but median incomes for the top 1% have gone up more than 10 times faster, by an astounding 200%!

As a nation, America has experienced extraordinary growth. From 1980 to 2004, our Gross Domestic Product rose by almost two-thirds, but when you factor in inflation, the wages of the typical earner actually fell - not a lot, but compare that with the top American earners, and the widening gap between the richest and poorest Americans becomes starkly clear: Among the top 20% of American earners, real incomes increased 59%.

Twenty-five years ago, the top fifth of all American households' post-tax incomes were 6.7 times greater than those of the bottom fifth. Today, that ratio has jumped to 9.8 times.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ideas_opinions/story/423652p-357528c.html