Archive For September 30, 2017

My Mind Is For Sale

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My Mind Is For Sale

My mind is for sale, but not my time.  My time is finite.  Unfortunately nobody is buying.  Television made me a cowboy.  Got the horse, got the gun, got the hat.  Even got a girl and a place to bed down.  Except robbers and men who chase them, never much learned how to get money. …

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Estate-Tax Repeal Is the Original Phony Populism

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Estate-Tax Repeal Is the Original Phony Populism

What Republicans renamed the ‘death tax,’ is really the millionaire’s inheritance tax, affecting only 0.2% of the population. Yet they’ve convinced working-class voters to cut it. by Jay Michaelson Here’s a contradiction for you: The estate tax affects only 0.2 percent of American families—the wealthiest one-fifth of 1 percent of the population, yet 54 percent…

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