If dems governed like repubs they'd let hundreds of thousands of dreamers get deported just to make trump and republicans suffer the political consequences

Currently, almost $5.5m of assets can be left to heirs without a penny of federal estate tax. Worrying that estate taxes are going to get the kids kicked out of their ancestral home is just silly.

The lowest level in any state when any estate taxes kick in is $675k. I'm gonna say that is also a silly thing to worry about. If the kids can't afford the estate tax on the extremely modest $675k home in Patterson, NJ, they are going to have to sell the house anyway since they won't be able to afford their annual real estate tax bill.

It was a theoretical debate. I'm not worried about it and would protect inheritance from tax much less than it currently is. But, I'm still interested in the leftist on leftist debate on protecting that ancestral home.

Mandatory voting - OR - no one on public assistance can vote, which includes Medicare.

Electoral college re-weighted by average income.

Force all networks like History and Science to go back to their original missions and stop airing reality TV. All remaining reality shows are PPV-only. All proceeds go to racial and gender studies programs at elite liberal arts colleges.

Each minority vote gets an "oppression multiplier". Whites get 1 vote. Asians get 1.3. Latinos get 2. Blacks get 5. Native Americans get 7000.

All Facebook posts and chain emails are fact-checked. 3 violations = a one month ban. 10 violations = 1 year.

Finish the Reconstruction.

Replace Teddy Roosevelt with Obama on Mt. Rushmore.

Ban the mention of girls, beer, and pickup trucks from country music.

Re-carve stone mountain with Susan Rice, Loretta Lynch and Maxine Waters. Replace the laser show with modern interpretive dance.

Create a cabinet-level Bureau of Racists Affairs. Appoint Colin Kaepernick chief for life.

Mandate that all nativity scenes include at least one obviously transgender participant.

All guns must be pink or powder blue with the word Princess painted in neon letters down each side. AR-15 owners must by law wear a tiara any time they operate their gun. Gun owners must take a 12-week course on radical feminism and toxic masculinity created by Oberlin college. They are required to re-take the course with each new gun purchase.

Anyone caught flying the confederate flag has to write a book report on Eat, Pray, Love. If they can't read, an audio-book will be provided.

Rename the Justice Department to Social Justice Department, appoint this woman Czar:



Make sure she's in the public eye 24/7 - wall to wall talk shows, Oprah, Ellen, etc.

Yeah, the bolded, pretty much, and also, regarding the merits of a 100% estate tax:

If you're really far left and trying to ~eliminate income and wealth inequality then sure, I guess it is a reasonable idea. I don't think that there are too many people interested in doing this however.

I'm certainly not against a modest to moderate increase in top bracket income taxes, and I would also be perfectly fine with subjecting inheritances to income taxes (in fact, I think this would make sense. I like Microbet's idea here).

I imagine it is fairly rare for people to inherit their primary residence (?), but a carve out for that seems good. If you inherit a home that isn't a primary residence than tax can be due immediately imo.

Easiest way to do this is tax policy. For instance:

1. Rather than a state or local tax deduction, make state and local taxes a dollar-for-dollar tax credit against federal taxes similar to the way that non-US taxes are treated. This would be a huge boon for people in high-tax, blue states (NY, NJ, CA).
2. Benchmark tax brackets and tax thresholds by cost-of-living. So, if you make $100k in a high cost jurisdiction (i.e. coastal cities) you pay less tax than if you made the same amount of money in a low cost of living jurisdiction.
3. Make student loan interest a tax credit rather than a deduction. Would benefit the college-educated and those who went to post-college schools.

So you want to cut taxes for the already wealthy?

That wasn't the question (though I live in NYC and would love to be able to credit my state and local taxes). Question is how to harm people who didn't vote for you. Tax cuts for people who did is one way.

If they were really cruel, they'd make a deal with Trump to make DACA the law of the land.

Protecting up to the median price of homes in Cleveland seems appropriate. Tax at same rate as earned income if the heir(s) ever want to sell it or rent it out.

Ironic thing is many of the things listed thus far intended as jokes are things extremist left wingers in this country actually want to do and just can't (yet).

I don't think that I made any jokes re: policies