Crawford Newspaper Endorses Kerry 346
ramoth4 writes "Local Crawford, TX (Bush's adopted hometown) paper The Lone Star Iconoclast has endorsed John Kerry for president. Kerry's home paper, the Boston Globe, hasn't come out with an endorsement yet. It's a very interesting editorial, especially in light of Bush's performance in the first debate."
This is news? (Score:3, Informative)
It's sad... (Score:4, Informative)
No Bias here. Noooooosiirrreeee.
Re:Doesn't matter. (Score:4, Informative)
Sen. Kerry and President Bush also differ sharply on estate taxes. Under current law, the basic exclusion from federal estate taxes this year is $1.5 million. That exclusion is scheduled to rise in stages, reaching $3.5 million in 2009, while the top tax rate, now 48 percent, is set to decline in stages. The estate tax is scheduled to vanish completely in the year 2010 -- only to reappear in 2011.
Sen. Kerry favors raising the basic estate-tax exemption to $2 million "immediately," Furman says, and also setting an exemption of $10 million for a small business or family farm. The exemption would grow with inflation. President Bush wants to kill "death taxes" completely.
I'm still trying to determine how an estate tax is fair at ALL. I get taxed on my income, I get taxed on my interest, I get taxed on profit from my property when I sell it...how many times do I need to get taxed? The fact that the estate tax is 45% is also a killer.
--trb
Re:This is news? (Score:4, Informative)
You left out the third definition from your link [m-w.com], which fits the use of the word pretty nicely:
One would expect Crawford's local paper to be pro-Bush. They did not -- hence the irony.
Re:Doesn't matter. (Score:1, Informative)
I've known too many farmers get ruined by that tax to ever vote for anyone stupid enough to support it and I've got to conclude that if you can't (or won't) do simple research on this issue, you probably won't do it on others.
Can you find the myth in the above post?
Simple [iowafarmertoday.com] research [ctbaonline.org], indeed [nodak.edu]. Have your irony circuits overloaded yet?