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To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (877813)	8/4/2015 2:13:53 PM
From: Brumar89	3 Recommendations Recommended By Bill FJB locogringo Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1579736

Estate taxes don't help the next generation, don't help the unprivileged, don't help anyone. They just create an industry of avoidance. Warren Buffet is the cheerleader for the estate tax and he makes billions off it. What we still have is a system of white privilege related to intergenerational class privilege, not merit. Again, I ask how come non-white people can come here from Asia or wherever and be successful?

To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (877813)	8/4/2015 2:29:54 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 1579736

We should ALL work to get a level playing field. Then educate the D party. Not banning dissent and discussion. The ACA is the poster child and penultimate corporate welfare sell out. Yet still hotly defended by D's on SI. ++++++++ You know GE don't you? O'Banker used Immelt as his "Jobs Czar". Yalk about Orwellian! thestreet.com "It just doesn't seem fair," Zorpette, 75, said in a phone interview. "We had a terrible experience trying to figure out how to get similar coverage to what we were getting through GE through OneExchange." Curbing the health-care coverage for retirees marks the latest in a series of benefit reductions since passage of the Affordable Care Act, according to a retiree who spent nearly 40 years with GE, much of it working with pensions. He spoke on the condition of anonymity. The company recorded $832 million in savings in 2012 and $586 million in 2014, based on 2012 and 2014 SEC filings. +++++ GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt, The Head Of Obama's Jobs Council, Is ...