Imagine This as Kennedy's Last Speech

September 6, 2009 11:22 AM by Douglas French (Archive)

"Good evening. Some of us come to the ends of our roads unexpectedly. Others of us receive a final blessing; we're told we have a few months to put our affairs in order.

"I've made plenty of mistakes; I'm deeply sorry for them. But I got to thinking, is there one last thing I should still do to help the country that has done so much for me and my family? I think there is.

"I've been working with a few members of the lower house. Tomorrow they'll introduce on my behalf a bill we call the Economic Freedom and Prosperity Restoration Act.

"My family has remained wealthy and powerful because our wealth is protected in an immortal, tax-proof family trust. Most Americans can't set up such trusts today; the IRS changed the rules years ago.

"We've also remained wealthy because we pay very little income tax. Dad never declared much of his bootlegging income, and I don't pay much, either. Families with old money can arrange things that way, while the most productive of our fellow Americans -- the kind of who actually invent and design and manufacture things -- are taxed to the hilt.

"The Economic Freedom and Prosperity Restoration Act is in three parts.

"First, it changes tax law to allow any American family to set up an immortal, tax-free trust, just like the ones the Kennedy family and the Rockefeller family have enjoyed for nearly a century...."

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