This story holds relevance because it is a clasic example of cynical Republican politics-as-usual.

Rudy, a wealthy eastern city boy, was looking for a farmer as a prop to help him tell the lie that says American families are going to lose their farms to inheritance tax. It's plain bullshit and anyone who pays attention to the price of 80 acres in Iowa knows it. The only Iowa families who are going to "lose" their farms to inheritance tax are those who make a $10 million selling the land for shopping malls and parking lots.

Rudy, on the other hand, knows a lot of people in New York City and beyond who won't be able to take ownership of all six apartments and both of the vacation homes their parents worked so hard to accumulate. Not unless you want them to sell the porsche!

The truth is that Rudy wanted Deb and Jerry VonSprecken to help him tell the lie that Inheritance tax hurts anyone other than those who are both super rich and greedy.