Billionaires Desperately Need Our Help!<br />Maybe that’s why congressional Republicans haven’t bothered to renew funding for CHIP,<br />the child health insurance program serving almost nine million American kids.<br />For example, eliminating the estate tax would help the roughly 5,500 Americans who now<br />owe this tax each year, one-fifth of 1 percent of all Americans who die annually.<br />For example, the top 1 percent receive only a bit more than 25 percent of the total tax<br />cuts in the Senate bill, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.<br />Our political leaders are so understanding because we appear to have the wealthiest Congress we’ve ever had, with a majority of members<br />now millionaires, so they understand the importance of cutting health insurance for the poor to show support for the crème de la crème.<br />The Congressional Budget Office says this will result in 13 million fewer people having health insurance.<br />If poor kids have to suffer, we may as well make poor seniors suffer as well.
