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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
So here's a question for Spanky and all the other folks who supported the President's efforts to change Social Security:
The GOP leadership in Congress this week is pushing for a permanent repeal of the estate tax, a move that would do harm to the government's balance sheet about equal to Social Security's 75-year deficit. That would be OK because it would benefit a small number of very rich people, while Social Security should be changed because the benefits go to people who are more likely to vote for Democrats, right?
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Did we already have the discussion of dedicating some portion of the estate tax to the SS trust fund instead of general revenues? Pure class warfare, I know, but at least you can hit the people before they die to pay off the invidious structural debt created by the early years of unkeepable promises of SS.
