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...more moderate resolution passed easily after more than an hour of passionate--but not contentious--debate. The resolution said that MCAS is unfair to students in special and vocational education programs and to bilingual students. The resolution also said students' graduations should be determined by many other criteria, like projects and portfolios, and not just by the MCAS tests...
Just what does Bush find unfair about the estate tax? "I just don't think its fair to tax peoples assets twice," Bush said. But double taxation is not unprecedented. After all, the sales tax is also a second tax on your income, and it affects far more Americans than the estate tax does. In fact, the sales tax is a much more egregious case of double taxation, since the estate tax falls on a second person--the heir...
...this unfair to the wealthiest 1.4 percent? If the estate tax were the only tax on the books, then it would be unfair, just as having only a cigarette tax would be unfair to smokers. But the estate tax is only one part of a broader tax scheme, and it makes no sense to talk about the fairness of the estate tax in isolation...
...problem with repealing the estate tax is that such an act would make the overall system more unfair. If we don't need the $24.6 billion that the estate tax generates, there are better places to cut taxes--we could, for instance, drastically reduce taxes on the poor. And if we do need the revenue, then repealing the estate tax is unfair to the 98.6 percent of Americans who will have to pay the $24.6 billion that the top 1.4 percent save...
...Stupidity, a versatile item, may express itself in a thousand ways. Bush seems conventionally ignorant and incurious. Perhaps the impression is unfair. Maybe Bush is smarter than he looks. Perhaps he is afflicted by a genetic goofiness that leaves an erroneous impression; at least he has not yet thrown up in the lap of any heads of state. But when Bush talks passionately about education, I wish I could shake the suspicion that the last book he read was "Goodnight Moon" when the twins were three...