{"id":7632,"date":"2006-06-08T13:17:18","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T17:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7632"},"modified":"2006-06-08T13:17:18","modified_gmt":"2006-06-08T17:17:18","slug":"senate-rejects-permanent-estate-tax-repeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/senate-rejects-permanent-estate-tax-repeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate rejects permanent estate tax repeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was close, but proponents of a [tag]permanent[\/tag] [tag]repeal[\/tag] of the [tag]estate tax[\/tag] needed 60 votes to overcome a [tag]filibuster[\/tag] and send this nonsense to the [tag]president[\/tag]. They came <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/06\/08\/AR2006060800138.html\">three votes short<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senators voted Thursday to reject a Republican effort to abolish taxes on inherited estates during an election year with control of Congress at stake.<\/p>\n<p>GOP leaders had pushed senators to permanently eliminate the estate tax, which disappears in 2010 under President Bush&#8217;s first tax cut, but rears up again a year later.<\/p>\n<p>A 57-41 vote fell three votes short of advancing the bill. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said the Senate will vote again this year on a tax that opponents call the &#8220;death tax.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Two Republicans, Lincoln [tag]Chafee[\/tag] (R.I.) and George [tag]Voinovich[\/tag] (Ohio), joined the Dems. As Voinovich put it, &#8220;Repealing the estate tax during this time of fiscal crisis would be incredibly irresponsible and intellectually dishonest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s still talk of an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/05\/30\/AR2006053001182.html\">almost-equally-irresponsible<\/a> &#8220;compromise&#8221; under consideration, but in the meantime, today&#8217;s vote was very encouraging.<\/p>\n<p>As for the three big divisive votes of the month &#8212; anti-gay amendment, flag burning, and estate tax &#8212; the reality-based community is two-for-two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was close, but proponents of a [tag]permanent[\/tag] [tag]repeal[\/tag] of the [tag]estate tax[\/tag] needed 60 votes to overcome a [tag]filibuster[\/tag] and send this nonsense to the [tag]president[\/tag]. They came three votes short. Senators voted Thursday to reject a Republican effort to abolish taxes on inherited estates during an election year with control of Congress at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}