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To: Brugmansian

I’m sure there is a way to really help Hispanics sour on Obama. Give Obama time. :-)

Here is a good bit from the Heritage Foundation:

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2010/07/How-the-Death-Tax-Kills-Small-Businesses-Communities-and-Civil-Society

The section below is particularly interesting:

Minorities: Penalized for Business Success

Black-Owned Businesses. Even a company as big and successful as Black Entertainment Television (BET) will not survive its founder’s death under current tax law. In order to pay the death tax, the heirs will likely have to sell BET to a big conglomerate.[12] The same would happen to Chicago’s Chatham Food Center, built up by Leonard L. Harris, who put his earnings back into his business. His family, too, would have to sell the store in order to pay the IRS.[13] Worse still, The Chicago Daily Defender, the oldest black-owned daily newspaper in the United States, was already forced into bankruptcy by the death tax in 2003.[14]

Hispanic-Owned Businesses. Hispanic families fare the same, for there is no minority advantage with the Grim Reaper. As one owner of a manufac­turing and engineering company in Nevada put it: “If I shut down my business, it puts 18 families on the street. These families would then become dependent on the government for support, and it would increase the problem—not solve it.”[15]

In 2004, about 1 million Hispanic-owned busi­nesses were sole proprietorships, employing 3.5 million and grossing $200 billion in receipts.[16] This is a lot of civil society infrastructure to wipe out, infrastructure that would be much broader in the second generation as businesses grow (just like the Marvar shrimp business in Biloxi or the defunct timber businesses of Bearden Arkansas). The average minority-owned business spends $28,000 annually on life insurance premiums to prepare for the death tax, and $9,000 on associ­ated legal fees. All this money could be used to expand businesses or to continue to build com­munities. One in five Hispanic family business owners said he would have to sell his business or property early in order to provide liquidity to pay the death tax.[17]


2 posted on 07/27/2010 1:15:00 AM PDT by Maelstorm (This country was not founded with the battle cry "give me liberty or give me a govt check!")
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To: Maelstorm

None of that will stop blacks from voting for anybody with black skin unless s/he’s a conservative. Skin color is the most important qualifier for the black vote, even when that vote is clearly against their own interests.


6 posted on 07/27/2010 1:55:07 AM PDT by chilltherats (First, kill all the lawyers (now that they ARE the tyrants).......)
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To: Maelstorm
The AP-Univision Poll was conducted from March 11 to June 3

This doesn't even seem like a poll, it's surely no "snapshot" of the electorate.

7 posted on 07/27/2010 2:00:44 AM PDT by gusopol3
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To: Maelstorm
...Another 32 percent were on the fence...

I'm willing to bet they are over the fence by now... and heading for their day jobs.

11 posted on 07/27/2010 3:31:51 AM PDT by AvOrdVet ("Put the wagons in a circle for all the good it'll do")
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