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Do you have an example for that anecdote. There are less than 5000 families that are impacted by the estate tax in some degree, less than .2% of tax filings. Its a tax, they aren't seizing their property because they have over $5M. The average tax is around 17% so your doomsday scenario is hyperbole.
Yeah, i don't the GOP did this to help the children of paving contractors. This primarily helps their donors, like the Kochs and the Mercers.
If I wanted to take his remarks one step further, IMO, he is correct.
All of us here on POC will quickly say that our voting age population does not pay enough attention to the congress. And that is the start of most of the nation's problems.
One half of us who were eligible to vote did not. Movies, booze and women? IDK. But i do know all of us need civics lessons.
If I wanted to take his remarks one step further, IMO, he is correct.
I suppose it depends on what you think he meant. There are a few ways to interpret his remarks.
One way is somewhat ironic
Where he's basically telling a bunch of white rural american farmers (who inherited their land from their fathers, and their fathers, who were given the land for free from the U.S. Government) .... telling them that the reason the "general masses" (Who typically do not inherit farms) are not the inheritors of large estates is because "their type" (presumably their forebears) blew everything on booze, women and movies.
It's a convoluted, insane thing when I explain it like this, but that's the dog whistle he's sounding to his base. "We are better people than them."
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