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Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Good Writing
A few posts back I extolled the writing abilities of bloggers vis-a-vis traditional print journalists. Kevin Drum proves me right:
I actually understand the gut appeal of estate tax repeal. After all, when you die don't you want to decide who gets your money? And yet, Democrats' inability to make the counterargument stick is telling. The only thing being taxed is estates of robber baron size; the only people being taxed are the pampered children of the robber barons; and the cost of repeal is on the order of $1 trillion per decade. Apply that to Social Security and the system would still be solvent when Captain Kirk retired.
Two great points delivered with high pith. Says here Paris Hilton should be Dem's poster gal for the estate tax debate. Middle class America knows her. Does middle class America want to give her a tax break?
So a few thousand indolent kids like Paris Hilton get to pay for their Roman bacchanalias tax free while a couple hundred million ordinary working folks get the shaft. That's the party of moral values for you.
2 Comments:
And what's more, in real life Kevin Drum is some kind of computer geek, not some sort of creative writing or literature major. And as Eric Alterman has pointed out, the best editorial writer for the NYT is an economist with a day job.
By 
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10:02 PM
There should be the equivalent of the Iowa Writers' Workshop for bloggers. But not for two years. And not in Iowa.
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