While the government diverts our attention by one scare or another-Ebole one day, ISIS another, Social Security bankruptcy another, and then back to the old stand-by, Terrorism-they allow the plutocrats to find ways to stick it to the rest of us. Now I read that NJ wants to raise a gas tax by eliminating the estate tax. How greedy can the one percent get? Take away a tax on the extremely wealthy and replace it with a sales tax, that as all sales taxes, is a dis-proportionate burden on the lower classes. Is there no limit to how far the rich will push the envelope (in my opinion, there isn't)? Thomas Jefferson once wrote that people will bear suffering until a certain point and then they will respond; I don't want to be around when they do.
Remember Jefferson's words: "All experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, then to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed".
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