GOP finally fighting for those who need help the most.

[dank69]

New bill aimed at lessening the wealth gap. Finally these poor families can get some relief as long as Democrats don't do something stupid like filibustering this helpful bill.

 

[sandorski]

Won't someone please think of the Koch's? :'🙂'(

 

[Blackjack200]

That would only add $116 billion to the defecit over the next five years. Just double the cost of Obamacare.

 

[dank69]

That would only add $116 billion to the defecit over the next five years. Just double the cost of Obamacare.

Small price to pay to help people. I mean this is money that was already almost taxed once before.

 

[HomerJS]

Maybe when Republicans talk about helping the little guy they mean under 5'5"

 

[Jhhnn]

Small price to pay to help people. I mean this is money that was already almost taxed once before.

Puh-leeze. The estate tax exemption for 2015 is $5.43M, actually higher for "family farms", aka agribusiness. It affects 0.12% of estates, none of them middle class in the slightest.

A variety of coping mechanisms are available to those who can afford lawyers to put it together, including Mitt's multimillion dollar IRA for his wife, trusts, gifts & so forth.

http://blogs.wsj.com/totalreturn/2014/10/30/estate-tax-exemption-for-2015-announced-by-irs/

The whole argument puts the lie to Righties' mock piety for hard work & exceptionalism, not to mention their ravings about free shit for anybody not their economic equal or superior.

If inheritance isn't free shit, what is?

 

[theeedude]

GOP is establishing an aristocracy in America. I guess they don't know how that turned out in other places.

 

[Blackjack200]

Bobbing for apples? Why do they need that big tower there?

 

[dank69]

Bobbing for apples? Why do they need that big tower there?

That's an old-timey apple corer/slicer.

 

[JSt0rm]

The lesson learned from that is to make sure the poors are fed. They wont revolt if the belly is full.

GOP is establishing an aristocracy in America. I guess they don't know how that turned out in other places.

 

[theeedude]

The lesson learned from that is to make sure the poors are fed. They wont revolt if the belly is full.

I don't think they learned that lesson, since they are cutting food stamps too 🙂

 

[Blackjack200]

That's an old-timey apple corer/slicer.

Nifty.

Looks like it juices too.

 

[Mxylplyx]

Watching Republicans futile attempts to deny that their primary goal is to benefit the rich is always good entertainment. Wait, did I say rich? I meant job creators and small business owners.

 

[JSt0rm]

I don't think they learned that lesson, since they are cutting food stamps too 🙂

But they wont let people starve. I mean they talk tough but in the end they know its better to keep them on couches watching tv and eating fast food then to have them all rise up against the rich.

 

[JSt0rm]

What they want is a proper stable 3rd world country. If you are rich in one of those places it is a VERY nice life. Most of human history has had that dynamic we are just returning to the norm from this experiment we called the middle class that peaked in the 50s/60s. I mean what did we get? 80 years? out of 6000? lol.

 

[theeedude]

But they wont let people starve. I mean they talk tough but in the end they know its better to keep them on couches watching tv and eating fast food then to have them all rise up against the rich.

That would be logical, but Republicans are driven by ideology, not logic.

 

[JSt0rm]

That would be logical, but Republicans are driven by ideology, not logic.

naw. They will just pump money through churches to feed people and indoctrinate them into their primitive religion at the same time. Its what jesus would do.

 

[Genx87]

GOP is establishing an aristocracy in America. I guess they don't know how that turned out in other places.

Im sure you will vote for Hillary. But keep fighting that faux fight.

 

[theeedude]

You seem to be obsessed with Hillary's persona. I only care about what policies she (or whoever else it is) will support.

 

[Genx87]

You seem to be obsessed with Hillary's persona. I only care about what policies she (or whoever else it is) will support.

And you seem to be concerned about the aristocracy when it doesn't have a D in front of its name. I'm sure you already have a Clinton bumper sticker for your car.

 

[Genx87]

Further I find it rather amusing given the topic of this thread you would support a politician that has been part of two presidential administrations that have set records for wealth inequity.

 

[JSt0rm]

Further I find it rather amusing given the topic of this thread you would support a politician that has been part of two presidential administrations that have set records for wealth inequity.

Because voting for bush will be better for the poors. You sometimes have to pick the lesser of 2 evils. Thats the biggest problem with the gop. They refuse to make any compromise. The bamboo is strong because it bends with the wind.

 

[Genx87]

Because voting for bush will be better for the poors. You sometimes have to pick the lesser of 2 evils. Thats the biggest problem with the gop. They refuse to make any compromise. The bamboo is strong because it bends with the wind.

Ahh yes the other side of the aristocracy in this election. And I was waiting for somebody to bring up the lesser of two evils argument. As if that absolves us from voting in the same shitty people. A country of 330 million people will have a choice between two political families.

Anyways I am side tracking this circle jerk of a thread. But I had to point out senseamps faux concern about the aristocracy in this country.

 

[fskimospy]

Further I find it rather amusing given the topic of this thread you would support a politician that has been part of two presidential administrations that have set records for wealth inequity.

You don't really think that's a result of their policies though, do you? You might be able to argue for financial deregulation as enabling much larger inequality, but other than that it's tough.

This is the fundamental problem going into the 2016 election and why if I were to vote why I couldn't possibly see voting for any Republican. No matter who you elect, no matter how reasonable they sound, their primary policy goal will almost certainly be to enact huge tax cuts for the rich.

There's not a single Republican candidate that isn't promising this. That's a nonstarter.

 

[JSt0rm]

Ahh yes the other side of the aristocracy in this election. And I was waiting for somebody to bring up the lesser of two evils argument. As if that absolves us from voting in the same shitty people. A country of 330 million people will have a choice between two political families.

Anyways I am side tracking this circle jerk of a thread. But I had to point out senseamps faux concern about the aristocracy in this country.

Well the gop seems to actively promote this and the progressive wing of the democrats is actively opposed to it. I know who I would rather put my money on if the issue mattered to me.