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When it comes to ideas that this Nation’s elite’s do not want you to see, the Magazine Dollars & Sense presents what are easily the most censored ideas in the country.

Economist Larry Summers, former U.S. Treasury Secretary, once wrote that “in terms of substantive arguments, this estate tax argument [for repeal] is about as bad as gets,” and that he couldn’t see any case for cutting estate taxes other than “selfishness.” Unfortunately, as the latest round of Wall Street Journal editorials shows, neither selfishness nor bogus arguments about why we should repeal the estate tax are in short supply.

True enough, Sweden and Russia have repealed their estate taxes, and the third plank of Marx’s Communist Manifesto demands, “Abolition of all rights of inheritance.” But the rest of what the Journal’s editors have to say about estate taxes ranges from misleading to downright false.

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I got this from Ken Sain’s website.

Misguided and misinformed articles in both TomPaine.com and Mother Jones Magazine indicate a dangerous inability to face the reality that these stolen elections mean nothing less than the death of what’s left of American democracy, and the permanent enthronement of the Rovian GOP.

As investigative reporters based in Columbus, Ohio, we witnessed first-hand, up close and personal, exactly how the 2004 election was stolen, and how it will most likely be done in 2008. In the precinct in which Harvey Wasserman grew up, and in the one where Bob Fitrakis now lives, we saw the well-funded, profoundly cynical and deadly effective mechanisms by which the Bush-Cheney-Rove-Blackwell GOP machine switched a victory for John Kerry to an easily-repeatable defeat for democracy.

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