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CF,
We don't normally disagree with much that you write. Having said that, however, we do wonder if the people who perpetuate the neoconservative causes will ever die out. When we look at Mitt Romney, we see his five sons, each with a twenty million dollar nest egg ready to carry on his ideas until their children come along in their turn to do the same thing. George Romney, Mitt's father, began the tradition of full disclosure that his son is now brutilizing because he simply doesn't want us to know what he has done with his money over the years. From what we know, George Romney gave his son a good Harvard education and a path forward in this life. Mitt Romney has given his children a fine inheritance and a further reason to perpetuate the belief that those with money should live by a dijfferent set of rules than the rest of us. If Romney were the only one doing this, it might not be so bad. However, it is going on all over and the wealth advantages that these people are acruing through no effort of their own make them, like George's son, feel even more entitled than their parents ever though of. They like to speak of the entitlement problem, however, their own sense of entitlement to passed down wealth is far more serious to the nations future than anything else that we see on the horizon. This has led to so many of the problems that threaten the nation, including the belief that there should be no inheritance laws to prevent what is going on from perpetuating itself, not to mention a tax code, as you mention, that favors the rich and further lines their pockets with what could be considered ill gotten gain.
This nation was built on hard work and intelligence and sacrifice and people like Mitt Romney and his sons have contributed very little, in our view, to that heritage.
IOVHO,
Regards,
Joe
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