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Years ago, Tim Luckey's great-grandfather started a farm in Tennessee. When Luckey's grandfather and then his father inherited the farm, both paid inheritance tax. Someday Tim hopes to inherit the farm, and when he does, he will probably pay the tax again, as will his children, years down the road--all for the same 650 acres...
...insincere, because they are glad. The Bush code is not really about power; it is about winning and achieving, doing your best, better than the other guy. For them, dynasty is a fighting word, and it's no wonder, with its embedded insult of unfair advantage. "Dynasty means something inherited," W. told TIME. "We inherited a good name, but you don't inherit a vote. You have to win a vote...
BUSH: No, don't hate it. But it's not really true. Dynasty means something inherited. Both Jeb and I know you don't inherit a vote. You have to win a vote. We inherited a good name, but you don't inherit a vote...
...have to wonder how serious she was. The man she was promising to marry, after all, was poised to inherit a powerful political legacy. But the story, as Bush tells it, is a comforting tale; it assures everyone listening that a Bush presidency will not be a policy partnership...
...This is not the kind of world Americans want their children to inherit," he said...