[kingofbeer]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

Do you really think he will ever change his mind. Some people believe socialism is the greatest thing in the world and his opinion will never change.

Is Medicare, Social Security, and Medicare socialism ?

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

Ideally, the Federal government should use Estate tax to move money from Rich Families into more useful and socially stabilizing ways. For example - build back the vanishing middle class. Remember when the US was strongest (around the 1950s) BECAUSE of its GIANT middle class. Back then, the US government LED in RESEARCH leading to many important scientific and medical breakthroughs. Why !!!! They EVEN prevented polio and measles back then !!!!!

Seriously??? Punish success and play Robin Hood to those that produce nothing? Not in my America----I side with Governor Bradford of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1621---"He who does not work, does not eat"