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To: Travis_Bickle who wrote (90191)	10/15/2008 8:08:45 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541936

>>If my estate was in excess of $7m it would not be a reason for me not to vote for him, as I don't really care what happens after I'm dead, but if I stood to inherit $10m, I would do everything I could to make sure McCain got elected ... why should I sacrifice 45% of $3,000,000 so that Obama can be President? That is one hell of a sacrifice ... for what?<< Seminole - Well, let's see. I believe that having three new right-wing justices on the Supreme Court would have a seriously negative impact on this country. I also think McCain's hawkish foreign policy would drag our nation into more open-ended conflicts around the world, or at a minimum, cause an increase in worldwide enmity against us. I think a McCain Presidency would be catastrophic. So I'd be willing to make a sacrifice like that. Using your own numbers, I'd still have 8.65 million to play with. Anyway, who knows what kind of compromise McCain would reach with a Democratic Congress? In any case, less than 0.3% of our population will have that kind of personal decision to make with respect to estate taxes and vote. - Allen

To: Travis_Bickle who wrote (90191)	10/15/2008 8:59:08 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541936

That is one hell of a sacrifice ... for what? I recognize that there are single-issue voters out there. I have trouble getting my head around that. There's so much to consider. Assuming, though, that one was going to get sufficiently exercised over a single issue, it's hard to imagine anyone picking this one. While I support raising the threshold given that a million dollars isn't much money these days, it just seems like small potatoes, as issues go.