We're not talkin' chicken feed. (Devil In The Details).(Brief Article)
American Prospect, The, July, 2002
The Republicans' recent effort to permanently repeal the estate tax went strictly by the playbook: Call it a "death tax," and say it imperils the family farm. Of course, the Reeps were really pushing what they always push for: the upward redistribution of wealth, which, as in all previous estate tax debates, they sought to conceal under great mounds of horseshit.
"For the good of agriculture, let's make sure that the death tax is forever buried and forever done away with," President Bush declared. Tom DeLay called the repeal a choice between "American ...
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