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Question

Would YOU vote for anyone IF

Aug 10, 2016 5:59AM PDT

they removed the Death Tax....the $5.4 million base is way too low.

Do you wonder which block of voters TheRUMP is courting, given that 99.9% of Americans are NOT affected by the Death Tax?

They don't have $5.4 million or more and don't know anyone with $5.4 million or more.

Perhaps you believe there should be absolutely NO Taxes.

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Most of those affected by this tax
Aug 10, 2016 7:36AM PDT

are people who have not only invested via portfolios in the stock market or own 'small businesses' or have generational family farms. They may not have 'immediate' cash in those figures on hand, but their 'wealth' worth comes from land or buildings owned, so YOUR information is radically incorrect. Also, those with HUGE amounts of wealth also safeguard that wealth from the death tax by putting everything they own into family trusts. I just went through a rather large estate inheritance from a wealthy relative in San Francisco that for generations had their wealth in a family trust that goes automatically to their sons/daughters and stays in that trust avoiding nearly all taxes except for a small automatic income from that wealth that they lived on. The last son of that family trust died without a wife and no children to inherit so it was all divided up between the living cousins since the brothers and sisters of his parents were also dead and couldn't inherit. The very/extremely wealthy ALWAYS protect their wealth and strange as it may seem to you, a $5M net or gross wealth really ISN'T the top 1% as you might be led to believe. People like hilLIARy has ALL of her family's income tied to the Foundation that they can tap for their extravagant life styles and only have to report on her income taxes the actual cash they take out as 'payroll'.....protection from the very laws she wants to enact is her priority. Any laws that are passed by Congress regarding the 'regular' folks nearly always exempt themselves from those laws....or liberals would never pass them in the first place.

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RE: Any laws that are passed by Congress
Aug 10, 2016 1:46PM PDT
Any laws that are passed by Congress regarding the 'regular' folks nearly always exempt themselves from those laws....or liberals would never pass them in the first place.

All "regular folk/liberals" are "wealthy"?

Everyone that is wealthy is "liberal"?

TheRUMP is wealthy or he claims to be.

I recall one show, a person claimed to owe hundreds of millions of dollars....someone remarked...I didn't know he was THAT rich. In debt for hundreds of millions of dollars....I wish I owed that kind of money..

As I've asked......Do you wonder which block of voters TheRUMP is courting, given that 99.9% of Americans are NOT affected by the Death Tax?

Also, those with HUGE amounts of wealth also safeguard that wealth from the death tax by putting everything they own into family trusts

And TheRUMP has to get elected POTUS to take advantage of that?

His supporters give him too much credit.

Hillary figured out how to work the system...and TheRUMP with his billions hasn't?

HE has to get elected POTUS to make things advantageous to him?

AND he's going to get the best people in the world to guide him?
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Most of what you have just said or asked is
Aug 10, 2016 3:08PM PDT

your normal babble bull that makes no sense at all.....I've already answered that your informational numbers are wrong and why they are. I've never said that Trump hasn't figured out the 'system' and uses it as well. IF you continue to throw enough crap on a wall, sooner or later you hope that at least something of it will stick; however, you haven't gotten there yet.

I believe Trump's supporters give him lots of credit.....but I also believe that hilLIARy's supporters have all gone deaf, dumb, and blind to anything she says or does that can actually be proven and has been and continues to be proven.

When you decide to actually comment on what I replied to you in my post above this one, we'll continue.

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RE:IF you continue to throw enough crap on a wall,
Aug 10, 2016 7:10PM PDT
IF you continue to throw enough crap on a wall, sooner or later you hope that at least something of it will stick;

Trump campaign strategy?
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A better question would be how a person
Aug 11, 2016 2:25AM PDT

would vote on a particular issue rather then if they'd vote for or against a person because of their stand on a particular issue. We shouldn't be so focused on one subject alone. We need to look at a candidates entire package. If we were all perfect, we'd not even consider our personal gain by having our candidate in office but by how the nation as a whole would do. Of course, lack of selfishness isn't all that common. As for tax issues, it's always easier for a person to pick one side or the other if they feel they won't be at all affected by the outcome. It's very easy to get the majority of the vote when only a small minority will feel the effects of your program. Frankly, I've never felt that government should consider itself an automatic heir to a deceased person's property at all. But, if government insists that they are entitled, the tax should be levied on the remaining property of all who die and not just those with more. They'll eventually get their tax money anyway as the true hears utilize what they've inherited. The death tax, IMO, is bad policy. That policy, alone, won't swing my vote but the entire tax proposal a candidate puts forth just might.