BS: Noted Without comment (09/05/2005)

Subject: BS: Noted Without comment (09/05/2005)
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 04 Sep 05 - 06:56 PM

"Next week, even as the national debt grows by another $11 billion and
military recruiters scramble with ever-mounting desperation to fill their
quotas, the Senate will reassemble to take up the proposal, already passed
by the House, to permanently eliminate the estate tax, thereby shifting some
$1.5 billion a week--about the same as the Iraq war--from the public
treasury to the bank accounts of the heirs to the nation's twenty thousand
biggest fortunes."

The New Yorker, Sept. 5, 2005 Talk of the Town

Subject: RE: BS: Noted Without comment (09/05/2005)
From: Peace
Date: 04 Sep 05 - 06:58 PM

And you take issue with this Dick? Next you'll be wanting poor people to have food, decent medical care and places to live. I have to ask--just how long have you been a socialist, huh?

Subject: RE: BS: Noted Without comment (09/05/2005)
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 05 Sep 05 - 05:13 PM

Without comment, like it says. I only wonder who's gonna foot the cost of Katrina.

Subject: RE: BS: Noted Without comment (09/05/2005)
From: Peter T.
Date: 05 Sep 05 - 05:16 PM

Surely you can't expect the dead rich to pay for the dead poor, really, greenhaus, what has come over you??????

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Noted Without comment (09/05/2005)
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 07 Sep 05 - 10:50 PM

To add some perspective to the picture, Bush is asking for $51 billion to deal with the New Orleans flood. That's what the Federal Government collects in 34 weeks with the present estate tax.