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Conservatives kick our collective butts by framing the debate with manipulative language. They invented the “Death Tax?? to replace the Estate Tax (picture: grim reaper as tax collector), the “personal investment account” to replace privatized Social Security (picture the empowered investor-citizen, chest out, cape flapping in the wind) and the horribly racist stereotype of the “welfare queen” to destroy governmental social programs (picture single mother proudly collecting her check and watching...
...America’s twenty-first century decline—by rejecting the continuation of a near-sighted administration, and doing what it takes to rebuild our competitiveness: repealing Bush’s greedy tax cut that explodes our debt and socks a $30,000 “birth tax?? on every young American and investing in math and science education, homeland security and energy independence...
...trans fats or high fructose corn syrup, repackage products with smaller portion sizes (like the eight ounce soda cans sold in parts of Europe), or even discontinue jumbo single serving product lines? What role should the government take? Is it necessary to place a “fat tax?? on Double-Stuffed Oreos and Doritos? What about parents? Will they ensure that five year-old Johnny will not Supersize his Mountain Dew, and that “would you like fries with that?” is not commonplace dinner discourse? For Critser, the element of self-control...
...further bolster this proposal, I would fully repeal the Bush tax cut and impose a “Fair Tax?? system in its place that would provide real relief to working people with a focus on giving breaks to new businesses not old millionaires...
This became apparent early in his presidency, when Bush championed the repeal of the estate tax??or as Republicans like to call it, the “death tax.” Never mind that giving people gobs of unearned money is known to dampen their desire to get a job and actually be productive. A tax on death is just wrong, Bush insists—it is almost as offensive as a tax on coffee. And so, countless scions of the upper class were put back on the inheritance dole...