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Rep. Rick Larsen (D-WA)... You're Grant's Bad-Donkey of the Month!
Submitted by grant on April 19, 2005 - 12:19pm.
31 House Democrats voted on April 13th to abolish an estate tax on the wealthiest families in the country including Washington State Democrat Rick Larsen.
For almost a century, the estate tax affected only the richest 1 or 2 percent of citizens, encouraged charity, and placed no burden on the vast majority of Americans
Ending the estate tax will add $1 trillion in debt next decade at a time when the GOP already claims that there isn’t enough money for Social Security and that government services need to be cut.
This will not help small businesses or family farms, as the GOP wants you to believe. This report (it's pretty thick) by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities states that "repeal of the estate tax would provide massive benefits solely to the wealthiest and highest-income taxpayers in the country... Few family farms and businesses are subject to the estate tax... far more efficient and less costly solutions are available to alleviate those problems."
Larsen's decision to take the side of the wealthiest 2% of Americans over the hard working folks of Washington state and Whatcom Country earns him this wonderful award.
Email Rick and tell him you're disappointed that he sided with the wealth over the working at Rick.Larsen@mail.house.gov today! It's easy.
Read more at:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/4/13/124239/269 http://www.mydd.com/story/2005/4/13/122336/043 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48025-2005Apr12.html http://www.cbpp.org/5-25-00tax.htm
UPDATE! Representative Rick Larsen redeems himself... click this link!
Siding with the Extremely Wealthy over Working and Middle Class Americans Earns Rep. Larsen Grant's first Bad-Donkey of the Month Award!
31 House Democrats voted on April 13th to abolish an estate tax on the wealthiest families in the country including Washington State Democrat Rick Larsen.
For almost a century, the estate tax affected only the richest 1 or 2 percent of citizens, encouraged charity, and placed no burden on the vast majority of Americans
Ending the estate tax will add $1 trillion in debt next decade at a time when the GOP already claims that there isn’t enough money for Social Security and that government services need to be cut.
This will not help small businesses or family farms, as the GOP wants you to believe. This report (it's pretty thick) by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities states that "repeal of the estate tax would provide massive benefits solely to the wealthiest and highest-income taxpayers in the country... Few family farms and businesses are subject to the estate tax... far more efficient and less costly solutions are available to alleviate those problems."
Larsen's decision to take the side of the wealthiest 2% of Americans over the hard working folks of Washington state and Whatcom Country earns him this wonderful award.
Email Rick and tell him you're disappointed that he sided with the wealth over the working at Rick.Larsen@mail.house.gov today! It's easy.
Read more at:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/4/13/124239/269 http://www.mydd.com/story/2005/4/13/122336/043 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48025-2005Apr12.html http://www.cbpp.org/5-25-00tax.htm
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