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Monday, September 19, 2005
Repeal Advocates Will Stop At Nothing...
Advocates of estate tax repeal have been scrambling in the weeks following Hurricane Katrina since a vote on repeal was postponed in the Senate and the repeal agenda has been knocked off the front burner in Congress. But now it appears those forces have reached a level of desperation not yet seen in this debate.
Time.com reported over the weekend that Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and other pro-repeal advocates are scouring the Gulf Coast for victims of the Hurricane they can take advantage of to further their political goals of repealing the estate tax. The article quotes Sessions as saying, "If we knew anybody that owned a business that lost life in the storm, that would be something we could push back with."
Senator Sessions - a Senator from one of the states hardest hit by Katrina - and others involved in pushing such misguided priorities of favoring a few millionaires at the expense of the public good after a natural disaster of these proportions need to re-evaluate their positions. It's even more despicable to be seeking to take advantage of someone who lost their life in such a tragedy to further political agendas. Senator Sessions should be concentrating on helping all those whose lives were ruined in Alabama after the hurricane - not just a handful of multi-millionaires.
Posted by Adam Hughes
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