Dennis Kucinich: “the last 24 hours will tell you everything you need to know about what is wrong with this Congress: hold up voting…”

“the last 24 hours will tell you everything you need to know about what is wrong with this Congress: hold up voting rights, knock down the minimum wage increase, relieve the superrich of responsibility for paying estate taxes, keep sending our children to fight and die in a war based on lies. That, by the way, is the real death tax, and it is paid by the poor and the middle class. Our new motto should be: United We Stand, Sure, But Divided We Profit. H.R. 5638, the estate tax legislation, should be more accurately described as the American Idle Act, I-D-L-E, because it relieves the children of billionaires and multi-multi-millionaires of over one- quarter of a trillion dollars in estate taxes in just 5 years starting in 2013. The $2,600 per taxpayer loss of revenue will take money from our schools and from our health care and from senior citizens programs. The Bible says it is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get to heaven. Here in Washington, the superrich ride elephants, and some donkeys, to get to their alabaster heaven where they pay no taxes. ____________________”