Don't be fooled Trump's secretary of education knows exactly what she's doing

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The miseducation of Betsy DeVos

Source: Detroit Metro Times

The first thing you notice about Betsy DeVos — President Donald Trump's choice to run the United States Department of Education — is that she is rich.

Actually, the word "rich" doesn't really do it justice. Cookie batter is rich. Betsy DeVos is wealthy in the way that Donald Trump wishes he was (and very well may be by the time his presidency is over).

Betsy DeVos is on another level entirely.

Begin with the family money. Before Betsy DeVos was a DeVos, she was a Prince — the daughter of Edgar Prince, to be specific. Prince père ran a successful auto parts manufacturing business in Holland, Michigan, which he had built into a billion-dollar empire by the time of his death. Prince used some of his personal wealth to bankroll what would become the organizational infrastructure of the religious right, providing vital seed money for conservative Christian advocacy groups like the Family Research Council and Focus on the Family.

Bringing about one of the largest mergers of conservative wealth, Betsy married into the DeVos family, whose patriarch — father-in-law Richard DeVos — had built a multibillion-dollar fortune as the co-founder of multilevel marketing behemoth Amway.

Read more: https://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/dont-be-fooled-betsy-devos-knows-exactly-what-shes-doing/Content?oid=9897449

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. And now no inheritance taxes or for that matter taxes at all. Not for these people anyway

Is it a 6 year killing of the estate tax?

Or is it overnight?

A democracy will never survive without estate taxes for a variety of reasons.