I was a little surprised when Sarah Palin mentioned the death tax yesterday. I hadn't heard about that in a while. Of course the real name is the estate tax and all the talk about farms being lost due to it is a myth.
Can someone explain to me why the same people who are so concerned about a tax on estates larger than $2,000,000 are also unconcerned about the national debt? If the goal is to leave more money to your children, aren't they related and isn't the debt more serious? Is it that they only care about rich people's children?
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Since they really only care about rich adults, why shouldn't they limit their concern to rich children as well? (And/or the offspring of rich adults, I assume they don't stop caring about them when they grow up, unless they become poor.)
Well they also care about poor zygotes.
Actually the first comment was somewhat in jest, but in my most cynical moments I think that there are some rabid neocons who think that if they rack up enough debt it'll paralyze the government and they'll achieve their holy grail of "limited government" because the government just can't afford to do anything. I'm not sure how they'll fund wars at that point... they'll probably tax the middle class (since the poor will all be on a battlefield.)
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