Originally posted by PDXSVT: JaTo, I gave you a chance to back off.
Wow, I just can't wait to have to see my taxes go to subsidize your family's holdings of MILLIONS of dollars worth of real estate.
Just as I tire subsidizing lazy-ass individuals, ill-concieved social programs, whiny liberals and their "cause du jour" that suck away resources for useless and ultimately innane "feel good" excercises with tax dollars that come from my innovation, my families, or their holdings, when it could be more responsibly used and invested back into the US economy by ME, thereby generating MORE tax dollars that would serve as a tax annuity instead of a one-time lump sum.
That's a two-way street, if you want to play that childish game. Are you forgetting the FACT that I tend to invest money that I make or gain, thus providing for MORE tax dollars down the road and MORE possibilites for growth? Of course not, though. Myopia seems to be the liberal's disease and you appear to have it in spades...
Don't forget that I supply goods/services for state, local and the Federal government as well and have done so for years. I've seen FIRSTHAND the jaw-dropping WASTE that goes on in US government and the way budget dollars are allocated.
The difference between you and me is that you think the government can manage more of your money better than you can (which very well may be the case). I KNOW I can manage more of my money better than the US government and plow those extra dollars back into the economy and provide for growth, as I'm not content to sit on my assets or resources and do nothing with them.
I don't despise paying taxes; I despise paying EXHORBANT taxes and the estate tax is precisely that. I'm tired of feeding a wasteful and sloppy bureaucracy more and more dollars every year and seeing less and less of any sort of return behind it for me or my fellow citizens. You apparently are not and are entirely content to get to the point where we are writing blank checks to the IRS.
Check out why most state governments are in the trouble they are in today: it wasn't due to a lack of tax dollars, it is due to the spendthrift nature instead of coming up with ways to save and preserve the extra dollars they gained during the boom...
Originally posted by PDXSVT:Of course they should get an estate tax break at everyone else's expense. After all, that directly benefits your family and you support it. That in itself should be good reason for an undecided voter to support your position. Perhaps we city boys could learn a thing or two from your family about how to screw everyone else.
Try this definition of "screw": a tax structure that can tax estates up to 80-90% in some cases. If you support this, then I ask who has been screwing who?
Again, I'm sitting quite comfortable but will always want more, as contentment isn't a part of my vocabulary. My concern is for small and medium-size farms and ranches that can potentially get gutted unless the proper estate planning has taken place, thereby ruining any chance for a business tradition and legacy to continue, one that I might add that holds great value in supplying food and materials for the US people...
Originally posted by PDXSVT:PLEASE appoint yourself Bush's posterboy on this issue.
I'd figured after your de facto admission that you don't know everything after all (like how you'd question George Will since he's syndicated through the Washington Post) that you'd learned to be a bit more careful about setting yourself up. Did I overestimate your learning curve? Guess so.
Nice bit of revisionist history, there. I questioned Will's comparison of events in Iraq to the Bolshevik Revolution, damn his credentials or conservative leanings (true, I do hold just about anything out of the Wash. Post suspect). I still do, as the recent uprisings and unrest have been more akin to the situation we dropped into in Somalia, as a certain editorial in the Wall Street Journal mentioned (the author was Mark Bowden).
Just because I'm conservative on many issues doesn't always mean I agree with them or see the world the same way they do.
In close:
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." -Sir Winston Churchill
It's easy to see which side of that statement you stand...
JaTo
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