Bush’s New Budget Aims: Screw the Poor

by Rio Flores on February 13th, 2006

From BusinessWeek:

“The contrast in President Bush’s new budget could not be more stark. On one hand, he wants to eliminate what he likes to call the “death tax” — a levy imposed on a handful of the nation’s biggest estates. On the other, he wants to end Social Security’s lump sum death benefit — a $255 check that the families of many of the nation’s poorest use to help pay for their funerals.”

Read more here.

It’s funny how some people interpret “WWJD” (What Would Jesus Do?). Per W’s interpretation, the appropriate course of action is to minimize tolerances for the poor and give more “incentives” to the wealth. Maybe he reckons that the more incentives the Republicans create for being wealthy, the more Americans will actually become wealthy.