Cross Posted at Peach Pulpit
You have got to love the "liberal media" in Georgia:
Ad campaigns, both from Collins and third-party groups, have attacked Marshall's record on the death tax and on taxes in general. Marshall favors the death tax - known to Democrats as the estate tax - and has voted to renew it, as stated in various campaign ads. But Moore notes that Marshall has also voted to raise the tax threshold to $5 million for one person and $10 million for a couple, though that bill has not yet become law.
Marshall has said he thinks a complete repeal would drive up other taxes. Collins said Congress needs "to repeal the death tax totally."
On the more general issue of taxes, Marshall says that he's voted for more tax cuts than he's voted against.
But he got an F last year from the National Taxpayers Union, which describes itself as nonpartisan rating service that looks at "every vote that significantly affects taxes, spending, debt and regulatory burdens on consumers and taxpayers." In 2004, Marshall received a D from the group, according to www.ntu.org. (emphasis mine)
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Known to Democrats as the estate tax? I personally perfer the "Paris Hilton tax", but then again I'm not a... you know... journalist.
The Macon Telegraph - Media by Slogan.
Oh, and the NTU? A few members / former members of that org.:
High-profile Staffers:
# Grover Norquist was NTU’s Executive Director before being tapped by the Reagan White House to head Americans for Tax Reform.
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High Profile Board Members:
# David M. Stanley, Chairman of the Board
# Steve Forbes, two-time candidate for GOP presidential nomination
# J. Kenneth Blackwell, Ohio Secretary of State
# J. Patrick Rooney, a right-wing funder
Yep. Looks like a non-partisan organization to me.
I'll be looking for a correction any day now. </snark>