There will be a vote in the Senate on Thursday on the Estate Tax. As an excellent editorial in the Inquirer on Monday pointed out, ending the Estate Tax makes no sense. The Estate Tax only taxes a tiny proportion of people in this country. It takes a relatively small proportion of the estates of people until those estates get very large.
It is an important source of federal revenue. And, one thing the Inquirer editorial did not point it, it is critical if we want to prevent a hereditary oligarchy—rule by the rich–from arising in the United States. (I know, sometimes it seems we have an oligarchy already. But a hereditary oligarchy would be worse.)
Here is the plan, which I just got from Craig Kaufman and Jeff Garis of PA Action:
–We start at the Doylestown courthouse, at the war monument (right near Rep. Fitzpatrick’s 60 N. Main St. office), at 10am sharp. We will have rally outside and then go in to ask/pressure/challenge Fitzpatrick’s people who said last Friday that they felt he should support us on this (ie., we pushed to have him call Specter, and now we’ll demand that if he didn’t already call, that he call Specter on the spot).
–We’ll then get a caravan to go down to meet outside Specter’s office in Philadelphia at 12pm. The address is 600 Arch Street, Suite 9400. We’ll do a rally for the press and public and deliver Specter the 6-foot tall ’silver’ spoons and report on PA being affected by the Estate Tax.
It’s TRILLION DOLLARS on Specter and Fitzpatrick’s heads, so let’s put the pressure on. We had Action News 6 and radio station 1060, last week on this issue at Fitzpatrick’s office. Chuck Pennacchio came last time and may again, as with a number of Bucks/SE-PA leaders.