Barney Frank: Double-Dip Estate Tax Not Punishment Because Heirs Didn’t do Anything to Deserve It

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SevenTrumpets42
Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:32pm
And what right, Mr. Frank, does the Federal Treasury have to TAX AGAIN what has already been taxed only because the principal has died? This fits quite well with the precedent set on our social security benefits which disappear once the recipient passes, rather than crediting that estate with remaining funds. This is Jesse James without a gun!

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Takeoutthegarbagenov2
Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:28pm
I’d like to see someone punch Bawney Fwank so hard his glasses fly out of the back of his head. This “guy” is a disgusting piece of rat crap.

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- momsense
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:43pm
  Beautifully put!
  
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- JohnQTaxpayer
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 6:13pm
  I cannot stand this POS, why do the people of Massachusetts keep putting this vile piece of human debris back in office. Will someone please put this communist bastard back into the dumpster it came out of!
  
  Massachusetts you are the laughing stock of America every time it opens its mouth
  
  JQT
  
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- RepubliCorp
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 6:14pm
  You could pay off the national debt with that one event
  
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- Rob
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 6:30pm
  Remember in “Spartcus” when the old fat men were forced to fight to the death… Bawney Fwank in the ring, priceless.
  
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Tri-ox
Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:27pm
In the diseased democrat mind, all taxpayers work for the Federal Government, and the government generously allows us to keep a small portion of our earnings. In related news: Barney Frank is a sweaty, slobbering pig who smells of rancid bologna.

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TexasAmericanPatriot1970
Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:26pm
And the U.S. government did WHAT exactly to deserve it too?

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- TexasCommonSense
  Dec. 20, 2010 at 11:34am
  Not a damn thing!
  
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Rickfromillinois
Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:26pm
The largest number of businesses affected are from the agricultural business. In other words, family farms. On paper a farmer can look to be very wealthy when the value of his land and farm equipment is added up. Unfortunately for him his actual spendable is not all that much. But he dies and instead of passing it down to his children a farm that may have been in his family for over 100 years will have to be spent to pay the government. The same goes for small businesses. When the value of the their buildings, inventory, and equipment is included, there goes the business when they die.
Regardless of how an individual builds his estate, how is it right or fair for the government to step in and take a large chunk of it after for their whole lives the people who built it up to leave to their children have already been paying taxes on it. This is just another example of some of these arrogant blood sucking leaches believe that that money really belongs to the government and we should all be grateful for whatever they decide to let us keep after we have worked for it. They are parasites and should be treated as such.

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- BeckIsNuts
  Dec. 20, 2010 at 11:57am
  Well said Rick. If the Dems want to prevent a family from accumulating too much wealth, how do they explain the Kennedys? And if the Dems/liberals in DC are worried concerned, they should donate their own money to the government when they die on a voluntary basis and leave the rest of us alone.
  
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spreadcommonsensenot pc
Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:24pm
Hey barn barn—-You and your buddies ARE NOT worth you govt salaries—-You havent done ANYTHING
TO DESERVE IT

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saved81207
Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:24pm
Well now he said that it is a gift., I guess next we will have to pay taxes on the gifts we receive. That will take a bit of the Ho Ho out of Christmas and birthdays. Look out kids, your Unce Sam may start to make you pay to get your presents.

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Sgt.Crust
Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:24pm
It ain’t a gift to you moron, retread, COMMUNIST! I wouldn’t give a PENNY to you, grrrrrr!

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- manymoons768
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 11:11pm
  My heart sang for abit. Merry Christmas to you Mr.SGT. CRUST and THANK YOU.
  
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KEA
Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:23pm
They havent done anything to earn it? I challenge this bastard to come to my family farm and work all the years I have and tell me I have not earned it. My family has been farming since they came to this country in the 1800′s and the very farm I live on and work as been worked by each and every generation and it sickens me to hear this pond scum insinuate that I have not earned what is ours.

Someone please push the button and turn DC into Glass.

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- SlimnRanger
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:41pm
  my thoughts as well these farm kids have worked hard all their life, plowing the fields, planting crops, bailing hay, hauling hay, tending to the cattle or what ever,hogs maybe but the kids of these farmers have worked hard for it and God Bless the ones that want to stay on the farm or ranch and contiune as their forefathers did, gosh every time i see Barney it makes me want to do more than puke,he is a rich freak and he thinks we all forgot about him having sex with the pages(male pages) few years back and how he got to keep his job is beyond me,he deserves to be in jail
  
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TheRealElvis
Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:23pm
Barney Frank is gay (queer for real, not a joke) and he doesn’t have a biological family that he can relate to. Many small families are developed and grow with the help of the whole family with maybe one person, the patriarch or matriarch as the legal owners. What is happening is an unfair tax on continuing the business. And Barney Frank should be the last one to have a say about family values or the transference of family business from one generation to another.
Who are these people who elect these people?

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- mrclean
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:52pm
  Massachusettes has a corner on the Vaseline market and Queen Barney is their poster boy. Gay or not, this “man” deserves a firing squad.
  
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- Modawg734Blue
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 6:53pm
  @MrClaen,
  Didn’t you mean Posterior boy? Just wondering.
  
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seeker9
Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:23pm
The government sure as h*** didn’t do anything to deserve it!
What is this nanny state all about if it’s not taking money from those that do something and giving it to those who haven’t done anything, aka redistribution?
I disagree with Barney. Taxation is punitive. The tax code is being used for social engineering.

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Rob
Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:21pm
I HATE this fudge packer.

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Lotus503
Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:20pm
Looks like it was removed…anyway, who is he to make that kind of judgement? It’s just like Glenn, Rush, Shawn and the rest say…the people in Washington think that all the money belongs to them, and they are ALLOWING us to keep some of it.

We need to bring that kind of attitude to a screeching halt. Repeal the 16th & 17th Amendments and put the power back into the States where it belongs!

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LibertyOrDeath
Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:19pm
These people know nothing…all they do is pillage and rape people’s wealth. They don’t create wealth, prosperity, innovation, or peace. They’re blood sucking leaches who do nothing but consume by force.

Why do the citizens let these bozos who know nothing about Econ 101, get away with this?

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- momsense
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:41pm
  Because many of the same peope who elected Kommisar Frank were brought up to believe incradle to grave entitlements at the expense of the working tax payer.
  
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- 338lapua
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:44pm
  That is a great question….my answer is right now!
  
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right
Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:17pm
He makes me sick.
It’s not your money.
The people that worked and saved should not be punished with taxes and their money given to folks who won’t work for what they get.
If you want to send your money to them that’s fine with me. Leave mine ALONE!

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justice
Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:17pm
Hey Barney Rubble, The Farmers in America would say you are nuts as usual. These people work generations on land and feed America and other countries. Besides that who the hell said that the peoples money are the damn Goverments money. You a$$, your all pi$$ed because you lost your major credit card for your own damn feeding frenzy.

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- guyperram
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 8:28pm
  Because Frank, Weiner and the rest of the Marxist Democrat’s and the Republican RINO Marxist buddies, have the world view that what is theirs, is theirs and what is yours is theirs. Remember the basic tenant: From each according to their abilities, to each according to their need. Well they have no abilities and their need is endless.
  They make Al Capone look like a good, solid upright citizen.
  
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Sutter Buttes
Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:15pm
Barney: Please explain “deserving” to keep your own money.

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- RepubliCorp
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 6:02pm
  It is the governments money, they just let you have some. I hope this clears this matter up for you.
  Have a nice unknown holiday
  
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- TRUTHSEEKINGAL
  Dec. 20, 2010 at 3:19pm
  Barney, How have the recipients of gov’t entitlements earned those handouts. Please explain how redistribution of ones lifetime earnings to a stranger is just.
  
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Sgt.Crust
Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:12pm
Confiscate this ..!,,

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- Sgt.Crust
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 7:55pm
  Now, I’m gonna have to chug a bottle of Captian…
  
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Right is right. Left is wrong.
Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:09pm
Well what has the Government done to earn it? Then waste it of course!

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- untameable-kate
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:15pm
  That was my thought as well. My son has done alot more to earn it than the government has!
  
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- Right is right. Left is wrong.
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:15pm
  Well what has the Government done to DESERVE it?
  
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- untameable-kate
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:28pm
  Pi$$ me off.
  
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- borismolly
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:39pm
  Just what I was thinking. And alot of the heirs have been working side by side with their family members in the business that is left.
  
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- untameable-kate
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:43pm
  Smart money says sell all your stuff to your kids CHEAP before you die so the government pigs can’t gobble it up.
  
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- NoRoomForSocialismHere
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 6:36pm
  I don’t expect to leave much but those that do have EARNED it, I hope. It would simply be a racist take away as espoused by “Black Reparation Theology” as taught to Kenya Dude for 20 yrs. No, it did not take away from Kenya Dudes lifetime Communist training afforded to him by his Commie family and Chicago Crime Inc. We must remember those two that donated the sperm and egg that left him for the pursuit of Communism. He was born a poor black communist somewhere in the world, he does send our stimulus money to Kenya, no chance his dada would get any part of that 1.5 billion plus unknown other amounts.
  
  The Kenya Dude must really be mixed up trying to be a Muslim, Communist, Black Reparation Theologist, playing American basketball, flying in American airplanes, accepting American protection from OUR military at the same time and after SWEARING he would protect and uphold the Constitution against ALL enemies both foreign and DOMESTIC. I guess he thought he could white wash the Constitution to Americans who have been here over 400 yrs.
  
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Sgt.Crust
Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:09pm
Barney Rubble, a big pile of trouble, the banking queen! Take your crap and shove it where the sun don’t shine. Your logic is bassackwards PIGGOT! You aren’t thinking about the son’s and daughter’s who work in the family business, most do that you know, you fathead!!! And some wives do the same! You are such an odd duck, all you do is quack quack burp…now go find someone to push your stool up for you! You just want to make me puke don’t ya?

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- Sgt.Crust
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 7:52pm
  I’m sorry people but this guy just brings out the worst in me.
  
  On a lighter note, in case you missed my other posts:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE
  
  Merry Christmas!
  
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- Rational Man
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 10:12pm
  Brings out the worst in me also.
  I feel ashamed and justified at the same time though.
  
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packers1
Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:08pm
Barney is a horse’s A**….

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- CatB
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 10:37pm
  RoFL
  
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- starman70
  Dec. 20, 2010 at 9:47am
  Why should it matter to Barney, he has no kids to leave his earnings to.
  
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Mister President
Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:07pm
You aren’t working for your family, according to Mr. Frank. You aren’t working so your kids can have a better life. No, no, no. You’re working for the collective good of everyone. Right, Soviet Premier Frank?

How does this guy end up in the United States House of Representatives? I want what his constituents are smoking. Must be some good stuff. Don’t worry, I don’t inhale.

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- Taquoshi
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:27pm
  Okay, so Mr. Frank thinks that it’s okay for the government to confiscate inheritance. Well, well, Mr. Frank, can we start with your estate? And let’s talk about your buddies, the Kennedys. And let’s not forget the Rockefellers, or Soros or any of the other wealthy people, like say, oh, Bill Gates for instance. Why wait til you are all dead? The government should take your money now, because, quite frankly, according to whatever wingnut criteria you set up, you don’t deserve it either.
  
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- Modawg734Blue
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:45pm
  @BarneyFrank
  The government did not work for my money, I did. I should be able to leave it to whomever I wish, without the fear of it being stolen by politicians.
  
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- MCGIRV
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 6:22pm
  The Barney Frank voters in his district are either stupid or sick bastards!
  
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John 1776
Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:07pm
Nope, want to vomit here as well! Nobody hurt eh?? Except for every family owned business in the United States that has to close and sell in order to pay for the estate tax, destroying peoples dreams and pursuit of happiness. Of course, to the government, nobody should own any property, right Barny? READ MY LIPS- It’s not your money !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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- Cliff
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 6:11pm
  prepare yourselves!!!
  
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- Sgt.Crust
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 7:46pm
  Hey EVERYONE, I hate flash mobs, but this one I liked:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE
  
  Let your hearts sing for just a bit.
  
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- Tallbriar
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 10:56pm
  @SgtCrust…..Seem to have gotten a little dust in my eyes…..
  
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guyperram
Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:05pm
And just how does that make it any different than what it is: THEFT!

When a crook like Barney has the stupid’s to open his mouth, trying to make grand larceny look different than what it is, it show just how bad off this country is.
Anyone else did what he did, they would be in jail, not “censured” by the rest of the band of theives.

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- cheezwhiz
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:58pm
  I think this comment explains why Faank and marxist revolutionaries like him bad mouth us TEA partiers all the time.
  We want to leave our kids with a better future, better country and NO debt.
  Commie-Catchers like him find that an impediment to their final goal of a communist revolution.
  
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- Bluebonnet
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 6:31pm
  And the thing he doesn’t understand, we worked our azzes off trying to build a business and during that time of little money, our children had to sacrifice as much as we did, perhaps more because they couldn’t do all the things other kids did because we spent years counting our pennies to keep our heads above water before the business started making enough money to feel comfortable. By that time I learned being conservative wasn’t that bad after all and it kept the wolves at bay, now it’s just a game. Barney Frank doesn’t know his azz from a whole in the ground, ha ha.
  
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- mikem1969
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 7:51pm
  It is double dipping. Our parents have worked all their lives to provide for us, their children, and to be able to leave us something when they die. They have paid all the dues that need to be paid on the estates and there need not be any additional tax thereof. Now, if once I have inherited something, and it is time to pay taxes and I get a property tax bill, then fine, I pay the property tax bill just like my parents would have. Isn’t it bad enough that the relatives have to mourn the loss of a loved one and then get slammed by greedy government, and possibly stand to lose all that their parents worked to build and leave them.
  
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jacobstroubles
Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:03pm
Is it me or does everybody else wont to vomit when they see him or hear his voice?
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- Right is right. Left is wrong.
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:08pm
  I simply can’t bring myself to listen to him. I immediately turn it off!
  
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- snowleopard3200 {mix art}
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:16pm
  Agreed. When he shows up and starts to speak the stock values for Pepto Bismal skyrocket into the stratosphere.
  
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- grandmaof5
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:33pm
  What a frickin’ jerk! And I suppose his boyfriend worked so hard to get those bonus’ he got too – thanks to Barney and the crappy oversight committee. He can go straight to H-E-L-L!
- cheezwhiz
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:34pm
  The Banking Queen is pi$$ed because he can never have kids.
  Yeah, I said it !!
- Dirty Harry
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:38pm
  These morons HAVE to go!!!
  
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- NoDaDAZone
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:38pm
  A person’s evil becomes visible in their demeanor. Frank looks like Porky Pig (and sounds like him).
  Frank embodies the Progressive-Dada mantra of “what’s yours is mine, and what’s mine is mine”. He wants all the private farmers to lose their land to the state. Nothing “progressive” about that. A liars words are the opposite of what he means.
  
  This excuse making for evil is a 100 year project. Glenn Beck has the Progressive side. He is missing the “Dada Manifesto” playbook of the progressives. The Dadas were the brains behind the progressives, who were just mafioso thugs.
  
  Learn about the enemy in its entirety. See the iceberg under the water.
  Viral Progressive-Dada Video Expose: http://www.marcrubin.com/dada2.ivnu
  
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- clockn63
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:42pm
  he makes me want to SCREAM!!! whew do i feel better
  
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- FlatFoot
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:42pm
  Barney “Tapioca Throat” Frank and his gentle kind words of inspiration to us all to spread the wealth.
  
  He’s so dreamy.
  
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- untameable-kate
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:45pm
  Can’t look at him, can’t listen to him. That is probably how he gets away with so much crap, no one is paying attention to him.
  
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- RepubliCorp
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 5:53pm
  Porky : And what did the government do to DESERVE IT ????
  
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- Dustyluv
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 6:09pm
  I would day let’s put Barney in prison, but it would be a reward to him.
  
  Sorry, can’t listen to the video, he makes me ill…
  
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- NoRoomForSocialismHere
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 6:13pm
  The homosexual ( a legal name) could be under their desk during negotiation, I don’t want imagine what he does to female politicians, since he hates women I bet its not nice.
- Bluebonnet
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 6:15pm
  Well duh? No wonder. With his chosen lifestyle, he’ll never have a family to leave anything to. Most of us work hard and save to secure a future for our children and hopefully to leave a legacy to them. That’s what I plan to do. Before I’d leave a fortune to the government, I’d give it away to animal shelters all over the country after I give the allowed amount to family members each year before I die.
  
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- bigtarmada
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 6:24pm
  Here, here! …*BLLLLLEEEEEEECCCCCCCHHHH*
  
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- jds7171
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 6:30pm
  I love his comeback. at the end. THat is so priceless.
  
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- stephenb.net
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 6:32pm
  Stop the gay slander, it doesn’t promote your political point it only makes you look like what the left wants you to look like.
  
  Frank says the heirs didn’t earn the money? I would be willing to debate him on that point. When a father works his entire life to provide for his family he makes sacrifices that the family must endure in order for his success to be realized. The family or the heirs earn that inheritance with their time sacrifice and their support which allows that man to make the money he made. Since the inheritance belongs to the man it therefore belongs to his family.
  
  Lets see Barny Frank argue with a divorced woman and tell her that she has no right to claim alimony from her ex husband because she didn’t earn the money. Good luck with that Barney.
- G.W. Dobbs
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 6:35pm
  WHY would any one vote for this homosexual? He said there were NO PROBLEMS with FreddieMac
  and FannyMae; six months later, these two require BILLIONS of Bail-out money. A WORTHLESS
  MAN and certainly NOT a “Representative” of anybody except those like him.
  
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- wash1776
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 6:42pm
  @SNOWLEOPARD3200—-That crack about the Pepto Bismal was very funny and very appropo at the same time. CONGRATS!
  
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- sabrinacle
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 6:51pm
  he makes my skin crawl. Frank is just plain disgusting. Makes me ashamed to be from Massachusetts.He is a bully and a blow hard.
  
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- proudinfidel54
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 7:08pm
  Bad Thunder, don’t temp the guy…lol
  
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- None_ya
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 7:22pm
  Yes, he makes me sick to my stomach. The man that helped crash the economy with his Fannie Mae and Freddie mac idea…he is a joke!!
  
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- FlowerBell
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 7:47pm
  It isn’t just you…
  
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- WILLIAM E.
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 7:52pm
  I puke everytime I see this IDIOT !
  
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- cheezwhiz
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 7:54pm
  Lets see Barny Frank argue with a divorced woman and tell her that she has no right to claim alimony from her ex husband because she didn’t earn the money. Good luck with that Barney.
  
  ————————
  
  Well by taking this argument a little furthur,
  lets agree that there is no such thing as a ” deadbat dad” .
  Howzzat ?
  
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- CYCLONE
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 8:26pm
  … kind of like your favorite toy Barney…
  
  GOING TO GIVE AMERICA THE TRIPLE-RIPPLE-**** PLUG BARNEY ?!?!?!?!?…
  
  GET READY FOR THE PITCHFORKS YOU LYIN’, THIEVIN’, WHORE !!!!…
  
  … the Dodd/ Frank Bill will put America in the deepest financial whole since 1930… try to get a mortgage on your house in 1-1’2 years for starters America…(*tip of iceburg*)…wish I had about 34 pages and the time to explain… ****, for now…I need to make the money to offset..just remember…
  
  “TRIPLE-RIPPLE-**** PLUG”…..
  
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- CYCLONE
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 8:37pm
  SERIOUSLY… how does he get re-elected…there is’nt even one troll here that would stand up for him… it’s 100% here… I knoe it is skewed here ,****, the comments in the Taxecheusatts papers are the same…It just seems a little queer….
  
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- trolltrainer
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 8:55pm
  Little Wiener said the same thing! I am glad! I wish everyone that felt this way would stand up and unequivocally say this. This one statement, that it is not the heir’s money, says more about their stupidity than anything else possibly could.
  
  So shout it my dear congressmen, shout it from the rooftops! Speak loud and clear so we can know who you are. And you brain-dead morons who keep voting these idiots into office…I want the rest of the country to see how utterly stupid the majority of people in your states/districts are. There is NO excuse for this!
  
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- WhatTheHuh
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 8:57pm
  Politicians like Frank are such hypocrites. Many of them are millionaires (after a career in “public service”? Hmm…interesting) and you can bet that they are doing their best not to pay their full taxes and to leave the most they can to their heirs. This is all for show so that they can pretend that they actually care for their Democratic constituents. And sadly those constituents believe it! They actually think politicians like Frank are fighting for them when all it’s really about is pandering for votes. I’m sick and tired of our taxes being used to stoke class warfare. Let’s institute a flat-tax and put an end to this. Just ridiculous.
  
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- DreamsWeaver
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 9:00pm
  I am the 4th generation of a “multi million dollar” farm. ON PAPER THAT IS — THE WORTH OF DIRT NOT what comes in every year to pay salaries, many other taxes and many other costs. Barney Frank is obviously embarrassingly ignorant of the farming/ranching business. Every generation has worked the land and every darn generation since taxes has nearly gone broke paying the estate taxes on land that our ancestors meant for US — Oh did Congress mean that our ancestors meant to leave the inheritance to the U.S. ??? NO take the dots out congress it’s been left to their chosen inheritors. If a person has wealth and wants to leave it to someone who never set foot on however they made their fortune THAT’S THE INDIVIDUALS BUSINESS NOT THE GOVERNMENTS! My goodness Barney where did you get your education? They certainly didn’t educate you on this countries right to gain wealth and do whatever we want with it!
  
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- A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 9:01pm
  It’s not a tax unless it’s taken from wealth that is created. That wealth that is left over after it has been taxed can be shuffled back and forth at will amongst the Private Sector, because someone in the Private sector created it and owns it. I am free to give my wealth to whomever I wish without the government getting involved – that’s what liberty is.
  
  And since, after taxes – which are to be used for the benefit of every constituent in the same way, by the way – the wealth is mine, for the government to take more as a so-called tax, is theft. And since “Estate Taxes” are theft, I am well within my Constitutional right to defend my wealth according to the 2nd Amendment.
  
  Learn your rights, people.
  
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- Citizen #25R624
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 9:15pm
  Someone should remind BF that IT’S NOT THE GOV’T'S MONEY.
  
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- nhall729
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 9:28pm
  1.) You didn’t do anything to deserve the money either.
  2.) The deceased, unless they obtained their assets unjustly (which can be resolved in a court of law), sure as heck has earned the right to determine what the estate they spent their lives building will go to.
  
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- A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 9:38pm
  Also, gifts, by definition, aren’t deserved.
  
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- CatB
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 9:38pm
  So Barwarny what did the government do to earn it? Often times family make sacrifices or work in the family businesses and help to create the FAMILIES wealth. Just because the head of a family passes away … why should the family lose what they too have invested?. IT ISN’T the GOV’T's money or business.
  
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- Iwillcare
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 9:38pm
  Wait untill His boy friend has to pay inheritance tax.
  
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- CatB
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 9:39pm
  THEFT by government is still THEFT!
  
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- Steverino
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 9:41pm
  Okay, gang.
  Barney Frank is gay.
  Barney Frank is an idiot.
  Barney Frank is a gay idiot.
  On a quick count just now, I counted 10 out of 32 posters that had “clever” swipes at his sexuality, (I use the term “clever” loosely…)
  I am, by no means, a fan of Media Matters, but this level of discourse is nothing to be proud of. I would challenge most of you “clever” folks to identify something akin to this on MMFA. And I have literally NO COMMON GROUND with MMFA.
  I LOVE THE BLAZE.
  I am disappointed.
  Can we please, PLEASE, keep the discussion relevant to the topic without resorting to the same tactics the progressives play by?
  It is possible many of these comments were made by trolls to make conservatives look as bad as them with the derogatory tone. I hope so.
  
  STEPHEN.B – Very elegant argument. Brilliant. The alimony angle is irrefutable.
  I may steal (borrow) that.
  
  Merry Christmas, All!
  
  Steve,
  Stepping off his soapbox. For now.
- tolyadmac
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 9:51pm
  I just vomited…listening to that
  
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- Rational Man
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 9:58pm
  Poor old “Backdoor Barney” is just jealous because the only heirs he will leave behind when he dies, are flushed down the toilet.
  
  Okay, that was bad!…. But I have absolutely no respect for that jerk!
  
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- uberconservative
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 10:07pm
  yes
  
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- CYCLONE
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 10:16pm
  @Dreamsweaver… EXACTLY… it has nothing to be known about being a gay idiot… “YOU” are just Mr. the idiot Barney and Mr. Dodd…now pay up to Momma… do you think I am stupid ???
  
  –.. You Lyin’ Thievin, Whores… !!!
  
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- thepatriotdave
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 10:41pm
  Just the mere mention of his name makes me sick!
  
  PatriotShops.com
  
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- BlueStrat
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 11:00pm
  Here’s an idea;
  
  Include every family member on the deeds, titles, assets, and all other owner-related paperwork for the family farm/business. Whenever a baby is born in the family, it’s name goes on the deed to the farm/business plus titles, other assets, and the rest of the paperwork.
  
  That way, there will always be an owner alive. No death penalty.
  
  Unless the government decides to kill entire family trees, rather than just “prune” them.
  
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- Rudedawg 88
  Dec. 19, 2010 at 11:42pm
  I find it hard to believe that this clown could possibly get re-elected.
  
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- NeoKong
  Dec. 20, 2010 at 12:06am
  He is the biggest horses ass in the House. Thanks a lot Massachusetts.
  
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- KICKILLEGALSOUT
  Dec. 20, 2010 at 12:20am
  This man is Pure Scum and is a Traitor! He is everything that is wrong with America today, it is amazing that there are that many people who actually support a man like this and shows how much danger our country is in.
  Let me ask you Traitor Frank! What did the Government do to deserve this money! And double dip in it for that matter! Oh yes, we need to hire lawyers to sue for Muslims that want off 3 weeks in the middle of the school year for a vacation! We need to pay politicians to figure out ways to let illegal criminals into our country! We need to pay sanctuary cities to enforce laws that they don’t enforce! We need to pay for foreign nationals to have large numbers of children that become US citizens so we can support them and their 5 kids!
  It’s about time to take up the pitchforks!
  
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- hickoryrat
  Dec. 20, 2010 at 12:32am
  steverino:
  You want to stand up for lolipop?Stand beside him and maybe you will get a rope to twist on.
  
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- FormerLib
  Dec. 20, 2010 at 1:14am
  So, Barney, to recap: If you earn your money, it gets taxed, but if you inherit it after it’s already been taxed, it gets taxed again because you didn’t earn it.
  
  Is there a tax you don’t like? Just one?
  
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- joseph Fawcett
  Dec. 20, 2010 at 1:55am
  I am with you, I get sick at the sound of his voice. I have zero respect for this man, how could anyone have voted for him? still blows my mind how he could have gotten elected in the first place never mind keep getting elected. I said the same thing about Ted Kennedy too. There are people in this world who are just blind followers and only want to be told what to do, instead of think things through and come up with a reasonable solutions. I really don’t like this guy and everything he stands for and I really mean that without any reservations.
  
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- IVillageIdiot
  Dec. 20, 2010 at 3:05am
  And what is so galling, is that were the Dems to use THE SAME “LOGIC”…. the entire entitlement scheme would be halted.
  
  They use “deserve” and “earn” in this case, but when they’re busy buying votes with their redistribution schemes, they use “need” and “moral imperative”….
  
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- StonyBurk
  Dec. 20, 2010 at 7:30am
  Would somebody Please ask Barney Frank what the american people ever did to “deserve” him in any position of trust or power? I can’t think of any sin I committed to deserve Barney.
  
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- True American66
  Dec. 20, 2010 at 10:09am
  It’s not just you, I want to vomit when I hear him talk too!
  
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- Hanna
  Dec. 20, 2010 at 11:40am
  Don’t these people live in the real world? Don’t they know that there is a cost to everything? The heirs of these “rich” people may not have gone out and drawn a paycheck in the traditional sense to earn that money, but they did earn it. They paid their dues. THEY were the ones without a dad at home at night because he was off busting his buns to make a business go. THEY were the ones who didn’t have a Dad at the soccer game or the school concert. THEY were the ones whose mom put them to bed every night because Dad wasn’t there. THEY were the ones that got to know their dad for only a short time before he died.
  
  And if their Dad as a Farmer, they did go out there and drive the tractor from the age of 12, they moved the irrigation pipe from the time they were 7, etc. etc. Where do these people get off thinking they have ANY CLAIM to that money that “rich” guy earned AND paid income taxes on. That is such BULL.
  
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- WTSpike
  Dec. 20, 2010 at 12:48pm
  Yes. Well put.
  
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- desertspeaks
  Dec. 20, 2010 at 1:11pm
  and how exactly did the welfare recipients earn it??
  
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- Melvin Spittle
  Dec. 20, 2010 at 1:25pm
  What is that on the side of his mouth and chin? Mucos? He dances around like his rear is on fire or is it anal fissures?
  
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- chubbzbar
  Dec. 20, 2010 at 1:28pm
  I posted once and realized it would end up on page 13 and no one would be able to read through all the hatred and gay slurs and get to page 13. Do something about it, don’t just waste your energy throwing out nastiness at Barney. Yes, he is gay, yes, he is a Socialist, yes, he wants your hard earned money for the government so he can remain in power — SO STOP HIM and the rest of the spenders in the government. You decide how much tax you will pay — get them out of your income — get rid of the IRS — take a shot at something productive — http://www.fairtax.org.
  
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- Born In MA
  Dec. 20, 2010 at 1:28pm
  Barney, Sit down, Shut up and quit embarrasing the good peoples of MA.
  
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- jeffp605
  Dec. 20, 2010 at 1:35pm
  Ok so using this argument does that mean a man or woman bringing home the bacon should keep all the money , house , investments in a divorce ?
  
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- whereareyourbrains
  Dec. 20, 2010 at 2:30pm
  So they pay taxes first and then when they die the government thinks it is their money and not the kids. So you must leave a will and give the government 35% before your own family gets it???
  What kind of idiocy is this? I hope they repeal this in 2012. I hope we can get rid of all these idiots.
  
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- Resolved
  Dec. 20, 2010 at 2:52pm
  This is ridiculous. I could do without the anti-gay rants as well, but I can’t abide this idea that heirs haven’t done anything to deserve the estate. That has absolutely nothing to do with it. In this country, I get to do with my wealth whatever I please. He’s got it in his head that it’s wrong to want to provide for your children later. I work hard for myself, but also to help create a foundation for my kids to stand on, and now he wants to jerk it out from under them? No sir. My wealth, my decision. The government has NO RIGHT to my wealth!
  
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- ThoreauHD
  Dec. 20, 2010 at 4:18pm
  I angers me that he’s breathing my air.
  
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- Patriot nurse
  Dec. 20, 2010 at 4:51pm
  I’m with you. This guy is a known pervert,and helped to bring about the housing crisis.Also his BFB is a weed smokin thief.My mom used to say,”Birds of a feather flock together.” And the folks up there in coo’coo’ land keep electing his sorry A..!!!!
  
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- Pslam 144 verse 1
  Dec. 20, 2010 at 4:59pm
  Go to hell then die Barney. Satan already has a special place waiting for you, you ass-munch!
  
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- KarenKat
  Dec. 20, 2010 at 5:01pm
  you are not the only one
  
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- ebaytoad
  Dec. 20, 2010 at 7:54pm
  I’m nauseous
  
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- getalong
  Dec. 20, 2010 at 10:35pm
  They did nothing to deserve their inheritance? How stupid does that sound? When is Frank going to fess up and tell the real truth behind his participation in the financial breakdown of our country? Someday it will all come out.
  
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- Canyouhearus
  Dec. 20, 2010 at 11:08pm
  Does he have teeth? Doesn’t look like it! Must be a reason for that!
  He represents our government and we actually pay him for these remarks!
  It’s only the wealthy that can leave their fortunes to the family.
  They don’t want you becoming a new dynasty!
  
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- thetroll01
  Dec. 20, 2010 at 11:23pm
  Makes me feel like I’ve been spit upon, and want to go and take a hot shower and scrub down with a bar of lye soap.
  
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- EnlightenedinGA
  Dec. 21, 2010 at 5:55am
  It’s not just you.
  
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- PA PATRIOT
  Dec. 21, 2010 at 8:02am
  Crooked as a dog’s hind leg!
  
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- drbage
  Dec. 21, 2010 at 11:26am
  And Rep. Frank what have to done FOR the American people to merit your $195,000/year salary and all the benis that come with it, the pension for life, getting your boyfriends off scott free whenever they get into trouble with the law. The people of MA should be ashamed.
  
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