Who's really pulling the plug on Grandma?-It was Sen. Grassley himself.

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Jacob Weisberg asks: Who's really pulling the plug on Grandma?


It's not preposterous to imagine laws that would try to save money by encouraging the inconvenient elderly to make a timely exit. After all, that's been Republican policy for years.

It was Sen. Grassley himself who rammed the GOP's most astonishing pro-death policy through the Senate in 2001. The estate-tax revision he championed reduces the estate tax to zero next year. But when the law expires at year's end, the tax will jump back up to its previous level of 55 percent. Grassley's exploding offer http://www.slate.com/id/2226518/sidebar/2226538/ has an entirely foreseen if unintended consequence: It's going to encourage those whose parents and grandparents are worth anything more than a million bucks to get them dead by midnight on Dec. 31, 2010. This would be a great plot for a P.D. James novel if it weren't an actual piece of legislation.

more:
http://www.slate.com/id/2226518/?from=rss
via:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/8/29/773998/-Midday-open-thread

[G_j]

1. K&R!

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2. k/r anything that poops on Grassley.

God I hate that guy.

[G_j]

3. kick