[aimhigh]

Daschle is pro-corporation. He's helping corporations take over family farms, which are sold due to this tax.

[MeekOneGOP]

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

...if Daschle succeeds in his obstructionism, he could also succeed in costing the Democrats the elections. Defeat of death tax repeal could lead to death for the Democratic Senate majority.

The Republicans are attempting to get a win-win out of this, and they very well might. They knew Daschle would use his obstructionist position to block the legislation. This could play out as follows:

Republicans propose repeal of Death Tax.
Daschle gets Democrats to block it.
Democrats lose majority in Senate.
Republican majority in Senate easily pushes through repeal of Death Tax.

[hobbes1]

Leon Hess stipulated in his will that his Heirs sell the NYJets, because of the Tax that would have been imposed on 600 Million dollar Franchise. We could've gotten another little Danny Snyder....

Thank God for Woody Johnson....

[hove]

Shame on the people of South Dakota for electing this man to office. Will they ever learn?

[chiefqc]

The Dumb-O-Crat circus continues, with the lead clown, better known as tratior tiny tommy dashole,in center stage.

[DrDavid]

They say they want a high death tax to avoid a large class of Americans with inherited wealth. Yet most of these "responsible wealth" participants have themselves engaged in careful and expensive estate-tax planning to prevent paying enormous death taxes themselves. Ted Kennedy and Jay Rockefeller both voted against death-tax repeal, yet you can be sure that neither of their billionaire families has paid more than a few peanuts in inheritance taxes over the past 50 years.

We should have a public inquiry about these Senators and Mark Dayton (D-Minn) about how their families have avoided the death tax. To be fair the loopholes should be closed retroactively and all back taxes paid with interest or the tax repealed totally today!

[steve-b]

The latest tactic by the greed-and-envy crowd has been to enlist the guilt-ridden super rich into a group called Responsible Wealth. Responsible Wealth is nothing more than a group therapy lesson for rich Americans who feel liberal guilt for their own success—in most cases derived from the free market capitalist system that they now attack. This group includes such luminaries as Bill Gates, Sr. and Warren Buffet.

Guilt-ridden, my ass. These people have got theirs, and want to pull up the ladder before the next generation of aspiring successful people can climb it high enough to compete with them.

[Keith in Iowa]

"I tax dead people" *NO SENSE* starring Tom Daschle (200k jpg)

[floriduh voter]

Excellent post.

[solo gringo]

Daschle some one should take this jerk around the back of the barn and whip his butt with a sixteen plat mule whip he is a sorry pile of horse manure.