Charles Pierce: In which Senator Professor Warren stops by to chat about greedy bastards
APR 16, 2015 @ 4:33 PM
The Senator Professor Drops By The Shebeen
In which Senator Professor Warren stops by to chat about greedy bastards.
BY CHARLES PIERCE
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...........when the phone in the shebeen began jingling on Thursday afternoon, I figured she might be stopping by. And, anyway, I had a fuse I wanted to light, just for mischief's sake. This week, the House of Representatives voted to eliminate the Estate Tax, which has been a plutocrat's dream shot since it was first enacted at the turn of the last century by that RINO bastard Teddy Roosevelt. For all the smoke that gets blown about small farmers and grandpa's general store -- a cultural milieu, I might add, with which Warren is far more familiar than, say, former entitlements-moocher Paul Ryan -- this is about billionaires making sure that nobody in their families has to work unto the next dozen generations. So I just threw it out there. She responded with a laugh that may very well have fused several of the apps on my phone together.
"I can't believe it," she said. "Well, yes, I can. This isn't just a really bad idea. This is an attack on our values -- getting rid of the estate tax in order to help a handful of really rich people, and telling our children that there's no money for them to go to school, to help them with their student loans, to build the necessary infrastructure so that they can get to and from the jobs that will help them pay off those loans...well, that's just...obscene."
She's trying to reframe the debate about regulations and the economy back to the consensus that existed before the Big Casino opened in the 1980's and 1990's -- that sensible regulation and strict enforcement is a friend to the markets, not their enemy. "When the big firms talk about markets, they're not talking about competition," she said. "They're talking about making more money for themselves by rigging the game." I would point out that there is absolutely no way she could do any of this within the opulent asylum that is the way we elect presidents these days. She's well out of it, and we are the better for that.
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once again Warren get's it:
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a34418/a-visit-from-senator-professor-warren/
