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04 Sep 05 - 06:56 PM (#1556161) Subject: BS: Noted Without comment (09/05/2005) From: dick greenhaus "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 |
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04 Sep 05 - 06:58 PM (#1556163) Subject: RE: BS: Noted Without comment (09/05/2005) From: Peace 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? |
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05 Sep 05 - 05:13 PM (#1556902) Subject: RE: BS: Noted Without comment (09/05/2005) From: dick greenhaus Without comment, like it says. I only wonder who's gonna foot the cost of Katrina. |
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05 Sep 05 - 05:16 PM (#1556908) Subject: RE: BS: Noted Without comment (09/05/2005) From: Peter T. Surely you can't expect the dead rich to pay for the dead poor, really, greenhaus, what has come over you?????? yours, Peter T. |
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07 Sep 05 - 10:50 PM (#1558720) Subject: RE: BS: Noted Without comment (09/05/2005) From: dick greenhaus 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. |