46 - Attack On The Estate Tax: Right-Wing Lies And Greed In Plain Sight

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🗓️ 15 June 2006

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Right-wingers in Congress are trying to repeal the estate tax. Fortunately, they failed last week. They fell 3 votes short of the 60 votes they needed to prevent a Democratic filibuster on the issue. Two Republicans, George Voinovich of Ohio and Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, defied the GOP leadership and voted with the Democrats.Since the estate tax repeal was pushed by right-wingers, you've

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0:00.0	Greetings, this is podcast number 46 of Blast the Right.
0:24.8	I'm Jack Clark from TheRationalRadical.com.
0:28.5	Today we're going to discuss the latest and perhaps most egregious attempt by the right
0:39.4	wing to redistribute even more of America's wealth from everyone else to the already
0:46.6	super rich.
0:49.1	Let's get right into it.
0:52.2	Right wingers in Congress are trying to repeal the estate tax.
0:56.6	The Republicans fortunately failed last week.
1:00.0	They fell three vote short of the 60 votes they needed to prevent a Democratic filibuster
1:05.7	on the issue.
1:08.6	Two Republicans, George Voinavich of Ohio and Lincoln Chaffee of Rhode Island, defied
1:15.5	the GOP leadership and voted with the Democrats.
1:20.4	Since the estate tax repeal was pushed by right wingers, you've got to expect there would
1:25.9	be plenty of lies put forth about it in an attempt to gather support.
1:31.4	Your expectations would be met.
1:35.4	You've also got to expect that repeal of the estate tax would, as all right wing measures,
1:42.0	benefit not the majority of Americans but only the richest.
1:47.7	On that you'd be correct as well.
1:51.1	I'll start today by debunking the three big lies about the estate tax repeatedly told
1:58.2	by right wingers.
2:00.3	And then we'll get into the question of what is it about repealing the estate tax that
2:06.4	could compel the often spineless Democrats to threaten a filibuster and even induce some
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