Who are the 18 Families who are pushing for the repeal of the Estate Tax?

Amy6627

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Wed Jun-14-06 07:46 PM
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Who are the 18 Families who are pushing for the repeal of the Estate Tax?

I have these so far:

Walmart Waltons
Campbell Soup Family
Mars Candy Family

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enid602

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Wed Jun-14-06 07:48 PM
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1. families

The Bush evil family, the Cheney Halliburton family, etc., etc.

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Gormy Cuss

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Wed Jun-14-06 07:51 PM
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2. The Cox and Blethen publishing families

Cox=Atlanta Journal-Constitution;
Blethen is Seattle Times and Portland,Maine Press Herald

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Selatius

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Wed Jun-14-06 07:54 PM
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3. If you want a very hefty list of elite families, go here

http://www.mediatransparency.com/funders.php

These are the families that fund the corporate agenda Republicans use. They are rich, powerful, and very well connected.

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Stinky The Clown

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Wed Jun-14-06 08:00 PM
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5. Some list. Can anyone tell me what these people have in common with ......

.... some guy who earns $100K and has an overvalued tract house and a modest IRA?

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w8liftinglady

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Wed Jun-14-06 07:55 PM
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4. gallo wine,DeVos(amway)

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Kerry fan

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Wed Jun-14-06 08:05 PM
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6. From thr report.

http://www.citizen.org/documents/EstateTaxFinal.pdf

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serryjw

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Wed Jun-14-06 08:50 PM
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8. Thanks for posting that

It was great info

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Richard D

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Wed Jun-14-06 08:17 PM
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7. The most important reason for repealing the estate tax

is that without it, family wealth can continue in a dynastic fashion passing down through an indefinite chain of decendents. With an estate tax, each subsequent generation has less and less of the original wealth, unless they make it on their own. So the super-wealthy are against the estate tax because it does somewhat hinder them from being dynasties. Without it we'll probably have (if our race doesn't kill itself off) Waltons and Campbells, and Gates's etc. running things hundreds of years down the line. Not necessarily a pretty picture.

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papau

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Wed Jun-14-06 09:01 PM
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9. fascism is defined as an economy run by corporations - dare we call the

GOP fascist?

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zbdent

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Wed Jun-14-06 09:11 PM
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10. Coors, Heinz (not Teresa), Mellon-Scaife

are maybes . . . but I'm speculating . . .

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