They're just not thinking. It's one of the key American ailments, and you don't even have to be a commie or anything to recognize this: the wealthy and the powerful in this nation have been very successful in compelling poor and working class Americans to ignore their own interests and focus instead on the invented woes of the very rich and the biggest corporations.

It's insane, but as I've said before, if you want to hear a long and passionate justification for getting rid of estate taxes, just ask a poorer American who's never going to be in any danger of receiving an inheritance about it.