Anyone see Laura Bush shilling her new book on Larry King tonight...

she admitted that her relationship with Barbara, her mother in law, was less than stellar... why am I not surprised?

"shilling" seems a bit kind IMO..;)


Is this the rag where she makes excuses for murdering that guy with her car?

for driving an unsafe car.....................

i saw on oprah some mention about how she wrote about how the old days were great.

she seems like someone who would be nice if you met. but she doesn't see or ignores the reality of the world.

she only sees what she experiences in her immediate surroundings.

The fact that she curls up every night with that murder monkey is enough to make me dislike her.
She has ZERO redeeming qualities.

You just summed up the Republican mindset. They only know their own small world and have no desire to look or think outside themselves.

This was driven home to me after my father-in-law passed away and an R childhood friend commented that the government would mercilessly tax every part of the inheritance over a million. Her parents had left her and her siblings with over a million to share. I looked at her like she was nuts. My father-in-law left $70,000. He wasn't poor, but he was far from rich. My friend, however, assumed that everyone who dies leaves a huge estate. It never even dawned on her that someone might not have big bucks to leave because that was outside her experience. Doesn't see the reality - you nailed it.

that much would pass tax free.

What people get confused about is other taxes due "at death". For instance, my m-i-l left about $120K (life savings). Since all of it was in savings bonds, some of that $120K was interest. That interest, when we cashed out the savings bonds, had to be reported as interest income on her tax return. So there was no "death tax" but there were some income taxes we had to pay. Seems fair to me. If she had cashed them out before she died she would have paid taxes on the interest so why should the heirs escape the tax on the interest.

Anyway, this R childhood friend did not pay inheritance tax on $1M. In fact, the first $3 million is not taxed (up from $2 million in 2006.) And after that the limits are low. So, if you inherit $3 million and five dollars, you pay 5% of the five dollars, or 25 cents in taxes. The first $3 million passes tax free. Cry me a river.

States have inheritance taxes too but most states are close to the federal limit.

what the rules were then and don't know the exact amount involved - only that it was over a million and there were taxes to be paid.

...but I don't watch his show.