Frist's Obsession

Adam Hughes

July 28, 2006

Adam Hughes is the director of of OMB Watch's Federal Fiscal Policy program.

Congressional Republicans have seemingly been obsessed with only one thing over the last year, pulling out all the stops by doing anything at all in their power to give their friends, their campaign contributors, family farms and small businesses a tax cut worth upwards of $1 trillion.

Almost all respectable media outlets, congressional offices, outside analysts and even most Americans now understand that the fight to repeal the estate tax is not about fighting for the little guy or the needs of average Americans, but is really about a windfall welfare program for the heirs of the outrageously mega-rich—with the 18 families at the top of the list.