04/14/05

It's the greed season. Republicans in the House just voted, by a lopsided margin, to permanently repeal the estate tax. ... But no effort is such an affront to our bedrock principle of equal opportunity as trashing the estate tax. ... The estate tax was a pillar of the Progressive movement 100 years ago, and the Republicans want to turn the clocks back, way back, beyond the New Deal, back past the Progressive Era, to the halcyon days of social Darwinism, the only kind of Darwinism they believe in." [editor's note: Bemoaning the end of the "death tax" -- specifically designed as it was to divert wealth AWAY from the families of those who made it, and into the public trough -- is another bad habit of "progressives" that we libertarians want to exorcise. Being more concerned that some of the "rich" might keep their money, than that some "middle class" ones could ... is pure socialist thinking! - SAT]

http://www.progressive.org/webex05/wx0413a05.php

from The Progressive, by Matthew Rothschild


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp