GOP serves only the 1%

This article, which is short and well worth your time, explains the GOP's reason for existing.  Here is an excerpt discussing the inheritance tax that should whet your appetite:

One [wide spread fallacy] is captured by the statement, attributed to John Steinbeck, that in America “the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” In other words, optimism bias leads people to wildly overestimate the odds that someday they, too, will be in a position to bequeath vast sums to their families.

at someday they, too, will be in a position to bequeath vast sums to their families.