Than to have to worry about estate tax...

This really pisses me off. Last year I made a measly $36,000. and had to pay over $700. in taxes...do I give a rats ass if these people have to pay their fair share...


TAXES -- EIGHTEEN FAMILIES BANKROLL ESTATE TAX REPEAL CAMPAIGN: The 10-year effort to repeal the estate tax (aka the Paris Hilton Tax ) on heirs of the super wealthy has been financed and coordinated by just 18 families , according to a new report by Public Citizen and United for a Fair Economy. The families include “the candy magnate Mars family, Waltons of Wal-Mart fame, Kochs of Koch Industries and Dorrance family of the Campbell 's Soup Co.” Together, they are worth a total of $185.5 billion. The estate tax repeal would “ collectively net them a windfall of $71.6 billion .” Bending to the will of these families, House and Senate conservatives are proposing to permanently repeal the estate tax -- or seek a “compromise” that is nearly as bad -- even though such a move would cost over three quarters of a trillion dollars in the next decade. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) has promised a vote on repeal in May . Meanwhile, a new poll finds that 57 percent favor reforming or leaving alone the estate tax; only 23 percent back repealing it . And for good reason: Americans are about four times as likely to be hit by lightning than to have to pay estate taxes on small businesses or farms.

I'm sick;

I'm sick of this war and people still trying to justify it with 9-11...

I'm sick of a lying President and a lemming congress...

I'm sick of for profit and stock holders...

I'm sick of going into the poor house just to stay healthy...

I'm sick of greed and wealth...

And I'm sick of being ignored!...

I often wondered, when I'd hear about them on the news, what are these conservative think-tanks, and what do they all sit around thinking about?...

First off I wish someone would pay me to just sit around and think but thats beside the point, conservative thing-tank, hm mm just let that soak in...

They think conservative thoughts and what could be wrong with that you say? Well when you look at what we have today you see the harm in letting conservatives think to hard in any one place for very long...

You see they didn't like the Unions, Unions meant that ordinary people could afford things on their own and wouldn't have to be subservient to the 'company' anymore. I can't say for sure just what was said but I'll bet they thought about Unions a lot. Then they devised a plan to discredit Unions make them seem greedy when they went on strike, "if your suffering then it's that damn Unions fault, if they'd get back to work you would have what you want." You never heard anyone rail at the company for not listening to the workers demands, it was always those lazy Union people that didn't want to work...

I remember a time when a man got paid a decent wage and could support his family without the wife working. We owe that to Unions for keeping the pay scale high enough for the working man to live. I can also remember talk of a four day work week, and a time when there was a middle class. I'll bet they thought a lot about that in those conservative think tanks...

I'll bet they also thought a lot about how to get the message to their millionaire friends while making it sound like they were talking to the average American. They've become pretty slick at that. Why they even had everyone believing they were going to cut their taxes when they really meant to cut just the rich peoples taxes. They had them believing that they would get government off our backs when they really meant off the backs of big business...

I will have to give them credit, their plan just about worked. I think people are finally seeing through it though, at least I hope so. You know it might not be a bad idea if we didn't let these folks sit around and think too much, it seems that when we do, we end up getting screwed in the end...