Oh btw there is no citation to the claim that the term "death tax" is a neologism as claimed by wiki. For all i know a far lefty put that phrase in there. Since anyone can edit that definition it is most likely an opinion by someone who worships the death tax. Nonetheless the term "death tax" does not even meet the definition of a neologism because even the IRS was using that term to refer to some estate taxes.
You miss the point. Faris & Luntz intentionally, purposefully, deliberately, announced to the right wing world that it was their specific goal to have the term DEATH TAX replace any mention of the inheritance tax or estate tax because it advanced a specific political agenda that you endorse and support.
They cited polling data which told them that the term incited more support among voters than the simple mention of an inheritance tax or estate tax. Even though the name DEATH TAX is a lie and openly deceitful since well over 99% of Americans who die never pay it - and thus there is no real tax on death - they adopted it as a part of an designed political strategy in the debate on the tax.
This reality has been repeatedly pointed out to you over and over and over again in thread after thread after thread. The term DEATH TAX is now the Boston Cream Pie of the political world despite the reality that it is NOT a pie but a cake. We have gone through the statistics more times than are countable. But even though you concede that over 99% of Americans do not pay the tax, you will not give up the term despite its obvious misnamed nature and intentionally deceptive label.
WHY TURTLE? WHY?
Because you are part of the right wing conservative cause celebre to get rid of the estate or inheritance tax and as such are a warrior in the same army than Luntz & Faris are part of. You willingly and freely march shoulder to shoulder with them in this crusade and you willingly and openly use their tactics and follow their marching orders.
I thought it was funny last night when you claimed that perhaps Luntz & Faris were copying you. And now we are expected to accept that your participation in some local discussion on a college campus was the impetus for the Luntz & Faris decree. Your hubris knows no limits does it?
It reminds me of a time when I saw Jerry Seinfeld in a club in Michigan and told him afterwards that he should have his own TV show. When he said he was not an actor I told him to merely play himself as a stand up comic. Nine years of hit TV later and hundreds of millions of dollars later I am typing this out.
Now prove me wrong Turtle. Prove my little anecdote wrong.
Do you see the problem with you using your own personal life events as evidence in a debate?
You can claim anything you want to claim. But the reason you claim the DEATH TAX is because you are a political ally of Luntz and Faris and march shoulder to shoulder with them in this right wing cause celebre. You are in their army and you are following their orders just the same as if you have never heard the term DEATH TAX before Luntz & Faris ordered the right wing to do their bidding. The results are the same and your employment of their tactics is the same.
Here is the info that you have seen countless times from the wikipedia entry on Estate Taxes in the USA
Political use of "death tax" as a synonym for "estate tax" was encouraged by Jack Faris of the National Federation of Independent Business[47] during the Speakership of Newt Gingrich.
Well-known Republican pollster Frank Luntz wrote that the term "death tax" "kindled voter resentment in a way that 'inheritance tax' and 'estate tax' do not".[48]
Linguist George Lakoff states that the term "death tax" is a deliberate and carefully calculated neologism used as a propaganda tactic to aid in efforts to repeal estate taxes. The use of "death tax" rather than "estate tax" in the wording of questions in the 2002 National Election Survey increased support for estate tax repeal by only a few percentage points.
Nobody is saying that they invented the term death tax. Nobody is saying that you or anybody else did not have those words pass their lips before they issued their marching orders to the warriors of the right. But what is clear is that you are certainly following them and are part of that crusade in the effort to repeal estate taxes.