Congress Funds Rejected for Zika Virus The Return of the Gilded Age

Zika funding mired in Congress May 25 2016

The two sides now must come together and reach a compromise that can pass both chambers and be signed by President Obama. But there was little sign of progress Wednesday seeping from the offices of House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

Ryan said that as with any other legislation, lawmakers are trying to work out their differences. A McConnell spokesman also said only that talks are underway.

“We’ve begun discussions on how best to resolve the differences between House and Senate versions and get a bill to the president,” spokesman David Popp said.

Republicans have suggested they want to appoint a committee to hammer out a compromise, but Democrats say they’ve already compromised and agreed to considerably less than the White House’s initial request in February for $1.9 billion. They want House leaders to take up and pass the Senate version.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/05/25/zika-funding-mired-congress/84914934/

How Wal-Mart’s Waltons Maintain Their Billionaire Fortune: Taxes

Money Talks
At the end of the 1990s, an effort to repeal the estate tax gathered force, supported by a group of billionaire families and their lobbyists at Patton Boggs LLP, a Washington law firm. Walton Enterprises paid Patton Boggs to lobby on tax matters during that time.
A Patton Boggs lawyer, Aubrey Rothrock, said in a statement that the Waltons’ lobbying supported “private foundation reforms to create new incentives for charitable giving” and did not involve “the specific issue of repealing the estate tax.”
Aided by Democrats such as Blanche Lincoln, an Arkansas senator, Congressional Republicans in 2001 passed a temporary measure that would phase out the tax over 10 years. The tax was restored in 2011.
As a senator, Lincoln was one of the few Democrats to whom the Waltons donated. She’s now a lobbyist whose clients include Wal-Mart.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-09-12/how-wal-mart-s-waltons-maintain-their-billionaire-fortune-taxes

During the Bush administration the Media jumped on board with the new name Death Tax rather than Inheritance Tax really pushed by Fox News Corp also Billionaires that have not payed there far share buying off Washington.

My final point is that the top few percent have more money then the next 80% but pay less in taxes. Guys like Paul Ryan are working to cut more taxed for the super rich, Bush even cut taxes during a war, first time in US history.

Now the Republicans cry poor we don't have the money for protecting the people from say the Zika Virus as corporations profits sore. Greed is Not good and will be the demise of the middle class taking are country backwards to the 1900s when the Gilded Age was for the very few.