Jeb Bush Defends Dead Billionaires' Right to Rise

[n2doc]

BY CHARLES P. PIERCE

​The staff here at the Café was taking it easy as the weekend approached. All the takeout orders regarding the pope's visit to America were pretty well filled. However, just as we all were settling down to count our tips, along came a familiar face, dragging behind him a familiar exclamation point.​

"Our message is one of hope and aspiration," Mr. Bush said. "It isn't one of division and get in line and we'll take care of you with free stuff. Our message is one that is uplifting — that says you can achieve earned success."

​John Ellis Bush, whose great-great grandchildren will not have to work for a living, is talking about "earned success." Sooner or later, the Inner Willard comes out in all of them. And it gets better, because with these guys it always gets better.

HARWOOD: How does eliminating the estate tax helps anybody's right to rise? That tax only applies to people who have made it big time—they've risen.

BUSH: Well, they're dead. If they've lived a good life, outside the money they've made, they're up in heaven looking down on us.

​Apparently, their accountants are up there with them. Maybe Jeb! isn't the smart one, after all.​

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a38264/jeb-bush-defends-dead-billionaires-right-to-rise/

[randys1]

1. I have an idea, take away all roads, bridges, water systems, sewers, sidewalks,

and anything else you can think that is part of our existing socialist system, then ask one of these dumbshit assholes making $12 an hour supporting the GOP how do we get them all back.

[n2doc]

2. They've all been convinced that most of the budget goes to illegal aliens

Their answer is always "if we stop giving illegals money, we would have plenty!"

Realty doesn't enter the picture with them

[randys1]

3. I know, and if the amount of money spent in non documented people were

a spot on a laptop screen, and the screen represented 100% of what we spent, the spot would be so small you could not see it with the naked eye

[reformist2]

4. I'd give up the estate tax in place of a 3% annual flat wealth tax.

No tax shelters. No trust funds. EVERYTHING would be subject to the wealth tax.

Imagine the Koch Brothers, who are supposedly worth $100 billion, being taxed $3 billion a year, every year, for the rest of their lives.

[hifiguy]

5. That's Thomas Piketty's proposal.

And it is a wise one.

[reformist2]

7. It's actually my idea, because I came up with it myself years ago. I'm just not famous. ;)

[valerief]

6. He's as dumb as a post. Really. Stupid as all get out. I'm thinking now Dubya has it all

over him in the brains department. Dubya could dodge better than !!!!!!!JEB!!!!!!!!.