MARTHA AS THE RED HERRING DU JOUR
KB,
Re: I somehow don't think the way the media is painting it is how it happened.
I am certain that you are correct. Furthermore, the Martha story is simply a red herring, intended to take the media spotlight off other stories.
Could it be that Ken Lay's defenders are gleefully playing the disinformation game here?
A hint:
jimhightower.com
DEFENDING THE RICH AT ALL COSTS
6/26/02
Today's Goober is a repeat winner––Tom DeLay, the corporate-hugging, right-wing nutball who is the third-ranking Republican leader in the U.S. house. Tom tends to view the world in terms of his own holy righteousness versus the satanic evil of anyone who disagrees with him on anything, which often leads him into fanciful flights of Gooberishness.
His latest came during debate on a Republican proposal to eliminate the estate tax––a move that would be a multibillion-dollar windfall for the Rockefellars at the expense of us little fellers. Under current law, only the wealthiest two percent of American families pay any estate tax at all. Yet DeLay brands it as the diabolical "death tax," and he recently rose on his hind legs to declare: "The vast majority of Americans believe that the death tax is the most evil tax on the books."
Earth to Tom: Most Americans think that the worst taxes are the one that they actually pay––like payroll and sales taxes––not taxes on huge estates. Far from helping regular folks, Tom's proposal would enrich George W. Bush's estate by some $10 million, Dick Cheney's by $40 million, and the sleazy head of Enron's by $59 million. Overall, eliminating this tax on the wealthiest families would take more than $800 billion out of our public treasury at a time our country needs it for education, social security, health care and the other real needs of "the vast majority of Americans."
This is Jim Hightower saying...DeLay and gang showed their true loyalties when an amendment was offered to exempt 99.7 percent of all families––including family farmers and small businesses––from paying any estate taxes, thus limiting the tax to only a few thousand of the very wealthiest and most privileged. No, said DeLay, who led the charge to kill this amendment. And that's the kind of Goober he is.
Audio:
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