So, Chuck Grassley wants to eviscerate the Estate Tax as the price for his cooperation with a jobs bill. Because you and I and everyone else just knows that the way to get the unemployment rate down is to let the Trustifarians keep more of mommy and daddy’s money when they die.
Now, in an alternate universe where liberals had all the money in the world to whip up public outrage, we’d be seeing some pretty merciless advertisements about this situation. But, we don’t have the money and the party doesn’t have the balls. Can hurt Max Baucus’s feeling, ya know.