@CommonDreams (Common Dreams) posted a new topic, subject "'Total Hypocrisy!' Sanders Rips GOP for Pushing Estate Tax Repeal While Rejecting Covid Relief as Too Costly". It read:

   Originally published at http://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/03/12/total-hypocrisy-sanders-rips-gop-pushing-estate-tax-repeal-while-rejecting-covid

Then @WiseOwl said

    The Greedy Old Prostitutes are at it again hoping for crumbs to fall their way from the top tier tables of this nation. Let's see, they are not talking about Voter's Rights, Climate Change, or a number of other pressing issues, so I guess they figured that their Dr. Seuss moment had come and gone and it was time for a new Diversion du jour. Imbeciles…

So @Giovanna-Lepore (Giovann Lepore) replied

    Just in case you had any doubts as to who the GOP actually _IS_ , _who_ they represent.
    
    Fascists must be fought with everything we got.

To which @Standish_Buttflap (Philbin Hovercraft) replied

    Had to laugh. These guys are so completely and transparently without shame of any kind. It's just heinously hilarious.

After which, @BigB (Brian ROTHERMUND ) added

    They don't even use the dog whistle anymore. I'm not sure they know where it is. And therein lies a huge problem. The American elites no longer feel compelled to even spend a second trying to hide their intentions. They are now so confident in their power that they simply state what is going to happen when they are in charge, without a care in the world of any consequences.  
    The oligarchy don't fear us any longer. In truth, they probably never did.  
    The Trump years were a giant social experiment performed on the American body politic. The results of that experiment were pretty stark. They proved the old adage from America's first gilded age is still true here in the middle of the second. The wealthy could indeed hire half the people to kill the other half. 75 million American adults voted for Donald Trump just a few months ago. And those are only the ones that showed up to vote.

So @telos2 (Ray) replied

    _CD_ commentators express Progressive's disappointment at the Biden administration's weakness in confronting the homegrown terrorist group  
    against American democracy.  
    Forcing the most uncomfortable question: Just whose side is he on?

After which, @Emphyrio (V) added

    How about for once instead of tolerating the GOP malignancy to metastasize even further than its obscene agenda to create generations - dynasties - of ignorant greed, of uber-wealthy criminal corruption of the Republic and democratic electoral processes.,  
    Instead forcefully oppose them and _strengthen the diminished inheritance tax_ and reverse all trump/GOP tax cuts for the wealthiest! Restore all to levels that serve the nation and sustainable future, NOT the greed, subversion, and diversion of taxation - which this and numerous other GOP atrocities have done - from those _most able_ to afford it onto the backs of the American middle class and poorest, the most vulnerable and _least able_ to weather the GOP war against them!
    
    We are told by the shameless GOP thieves (and other servants of vast wealth) we cannot “afford” pandemic relief/rebuilding, NFP Universal Single-Payer, forgiveness of student debt usury, repair crumbling infrastructure, tackle Global Heating and annual “100 year” storms, building a strong _Green New Deal_ , clean water, environmental wildlife protections, all the transfer of vast wealth to the 1% rather than build a just, egalitarian, healthy and sustainable society…
    
    This is not a trade-off between the just passed pandemic relief package, it is another attempted premeditated _theft from the nation_ to empower the few at the expense of the many - obscene wealth over the lives of millions to just live!.
    
    The RepubliCon “Conservative” mindset is to **abolish government Of, By, and FOR the People.- as Norquist said “to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub”** the murder of all New Deal and environmental protections - open season on for-profit everything regardless the consequences to the 99%, nation, planet or world. .

@Ronnie_Goodson (Ronnie Goodson) replied

    The estate tax rates should certainly be changed. The tax rates on estates over $5million and higher should be seeing legislation coming out of Congress that dramatically increases the rate of taxation and a steeper upward curve as the value of the estate increases. It is time to put an end to the Wealthy passing along their Wealth from generation to generation.

Then @bushrodl said

    I like the Freudian metaphor: money = manure. Manure piles stinks, but is productive when spread around. More equality in most things benefits everybody.

After which, @theoldgoat added

    Laugh all you want - then assess the danger and what to do about it
    
    grassroots unification across all the divisions these robber barrows have sown

After which, @HighValley (High) added

    Joe Biden says … if Americans put their mind to it, they can accomplish anything.
    
    … except, raise the minimum wage and move their society a bit further from slavery.  
    … except, forgive student loan debt  
    … except put People over Profits to save lives in a pandemic.  
    … except … well, instead of listing items individually, which will take a lifetime, we'll just say that Americans can do anything except take back the power and the wealth that the oligarchs have stolen from them.

Then @HighValley (High) said

    OK, here's a platform plank for the HighValley People's Party
    
    A 100% Estate tax. In the land of the free, everyone starts equal. The American Dream was always for a classless society.
    
    > As I went walking I saw a sign there  
    >  And on the sign it said “No Trespassing.”  
    >  But on the other side it didn't say nothing,  
    >  That side was made for you and me.  
    >  – Woody Guthrie, “This Land Is YOUR Land.”

After which, @jellyroll (Shel Neymark) added

    The republican base don't understand that;
    
      1. their estates are not affected
      2. we taxpayers paid for the educational, electronic, and transportation infrastructure that made extreme wealth possible.

So @HighValley (High) replied

    jellyroll:
    
    > we taxpayers paid for the educational, electronic, and transportation infrastructure that made extreme wealth possible
    
    And more often, in the Wall Street - Socialism For the Rich scheme, we paid for their businesses that created the wealth. One current example is the COVID vaccines. We the Unrepresented Taxpayers paid $billions out for the R&D for the vaccines, then Big Pharma rakes in the profits.

To which @RickDD (Rick Dubin) replied

    What has happened to the electorate that so many millions yet support these unfit legislators?  
    Is it the messaging? Are the rethugs so much more adept at winning over folks?
    
    The results of the last election would seem to counter this , at least in part, but the large numbers of those remaining loyal to a party that has long ago deserted them is puzzling.
    
    I guess a part of the blame must go to the democrats if we are being honest here. I am hoping that the democrats pushing hard for progressive reform will see a result in 2022, if, that is, they continue to do so.

So @RickDD (Rick Dubin) replied

    The battle for a raise in the minimum wage is yet being fought  
    Biden has noted his desire to relieve at least a portion of the student debt , a hopeful debra63@example.com.  
    This point in our history has been a long time building, and it will not be changed overnight.

Then @RickDD (Rick Dubin) said

    Where do you see Biden backing this?

@F_DN replied

    ‘Benefits 1900 estates,' and, what, their 74 million voters somehow believe that they're in some way significant to the gop other than on election day! Ignorance of your own ignorance will eat you alive.

Then @PonyBoy said

    **Estate Tax Repeal** affects how many in this country?
    
    If it were up to the GQP, they would starve us all to death so that the taxes they saved on their estates allowed them to buy another house, another car, or another boat.

After which, @chessgames73 (Climate Man) added

    It's hard to feel outrage about a party that does what it was designed to do.

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