Monarchy in America? One of Trump’s tax proposals would create a permanent aristocracy overnight

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Monarchy in America? One of Trump’s tax proposals would create a permanent aristocracy overnight

by R J Eskow, AlterNet, Salon

http://www.salon.com/2016/08/19/monarchy-in-america-o-partner/

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“There is a myth out there that…at heart, he’s really on the side of the little guy,” Hillary Clinton said recently of Donald Trump. “Don’t believe it.”

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The estate tax will collect an estimated $270 billion in revenue over the next 10 years. At an average teacher’s salary of $56,310, that money could be used to pay nearly half a million teachers for an entire decade. It could be used to double the scope of Hillary Clinton’s infrastructure plan. Or, should Mr. Trump suddenly learn to love his neighbors, it would allow us to increase by nearly tenfold the number of refugees admitted into this country.

Trump would rather turn that revenue over to the wealthiest heirs and heiresses in the nation instead.

Trump won’t fight for the little guy. He is the little guy, at least in spirit. He’s only fighting for himself, and for the privileged boys and girls who are the only peer group he has ever cared about.


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[Thinkingabout]

1. If Trump was for the little guy he would not have stiffed small business owners.