Just saw this on the Pederson webpage, thought it was hillarious. How out of touch can these guys go?
http://www.pederson2006.com/...
PHOENIX -- A column in yesterday's Washington Post outlined the upcoming Senate vote on the "Paris Hilton Relief Act," otherwise known as the estate tax repeal. The columnist wrote that the repeal of the tax "is like erecting protectionist barriers around the hereditary elite. It is anti-meritocratic and unfair -- and antithetical to this nation's best traditions." In fact, three of the four presidents atop of Mount Rushmore were proponents of taxing inherited wealth.
Yet Washington politician Jon Kyl is leading the charge on the "Paris Hilton Relief Act," despite all the other substantive issues out there that the vast majority of Americans feel are more important - Iraq, gas prices, healthcare costs - than more tax relief for millionaires and billionaires.
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