Comments on: Compare and contrast

By: Elliot

Elliot — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 20:17:45 +0000

Gee if Lubos was here he’d tell us to wait for free market forces to fix things in Louisiana. Anything else would be positively “communistic”.

Elliot

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By: spyder

spyder — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 20:12:13 +0000

It should be noted however, that until this morning FEMA and the White House were listing Pat Robertson’s charity as the number two choice for donating funds for relief. So much for publicly acknowledging the relationship between the administration and Mr Robertson; maybe his Chavez comments were in fact a planted leaking of intel.

It is also sadly ironic that the estate tax is currently calculated in such a way that contributing to charities prior to and following the death of the patron significantly reduces the tax. Under the proposed new system there cease to be any incentives whatsoever for the wealthiest .01% to give. Given their desperate need to finance the effort to get rid of the burden of paying taxes and thus increase greedily(have you seen the latest data on the gap between the wealthiest and poorest) their share of the national, we can assume that they no longer have any interest whatsoever in donating any of their obviously most precious resource.

By: Risa

Risa — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 16:49:09 +0000

No problem Moshe. And I completely agree with you about the inheritance tax.

By: Moshe Rozali

Moshe Rozali — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 16:46:23 +0000

Apologies Risa, I completely missed the point about the dr. vs ms. …(and I still wish they would call it the inheritance tax, which is exactly what it is).

By: Risa

Risa — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 15:22:47 +0000

Zero, I was mostly kidding. You are welcome to call me just plain Risa, I just thought that your use of Ms. Risa was slightly condescending.

Yes, I think it was just Ohio.

By: Zero

Zero — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:34:17 +0000

Pardon my informality, Dr. Risa. I have always found the use of such titles a tad pretentious, but I will give you the benefit of the doubt and accede to your demands. I will not, however, ask that you address me as “Dr. Zero” in return.

By the way, I am on just about all of the GOP mailing lists, but I did not receive any “death tax” letter during the past several days. Perhaps this was only sent out to people in Ohio? In any case, I agree with you that this is poor timing.

(Then again, has the left side of the political lobby suspended their emails about Judge Roberts, etc., this week? I couldn’t say either way, since I do not stealthily subscribe to their lists.)

Your evil Republican pal,
Just Zero

By: The Anti-Zero

The Anti-Zero — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 04:06:20 +0000

Sorry to rain on your parade, Ms. Risa, but Republicans may not be quite as evil as you would like to believe.

This is possibly true, but they still remain very, very evil.

By: Moshe Rozali

Moshe Rozali — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 02:33:49 +0000

Yes, Dr. Risa, and to call it the “death tax”, is a particualrly macabre choice of words. (the whole thing was probably computer generated…)

By: Risa

Risa — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 02:18:24 +0000

That’s Dr. Risa to you, Zero. I’m glad this earlier email was sent, but the fact remains that an entire city has been displaced and people are dying in the streets today, so I stand by my opinion that it’s unseemly to be campaigning for the top 2% of Americans to keep more of their estates.