[OT]America. The land of the not-so-free (economy)

[Randy Edwards]

 >  About 4% of Americans have $1M in net worth, only a
 > fraction of a percent have $2M.

   This is interesting.  In a previous post I noted that if we kept the estate 
tax (the so-called death tax), we could fund social security out past the end 
of the century.

   The estate tax impacts only people with more than $1M.

   Thus we can say the administration wants to sacrifice the gov'ts most 
popular social program, one that benefits tens of millions of people, all to 
save money for the wealthiest 4% of the population so that those rich people 
can pass unearned wealth to others.

   A gov't "for the people" -- which class of people?

 Regards,
 .
 Randy

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Citizens jailed without charges or trial, seizing property based on "secret" 
evidence, wire taps and surveillance, urging millions to spy on their 
neighbors, military tribunals, US-run torture prisons and Cuban concentration 
camps, FBI no-evidence warrants to search your library records; and we're 
supposedly fighting for freedom?!?