Dick Patten is the President of the American Family Business Foundation, a non-partisan, nation-wide organization of family business owners devoted to educating Americans about the Federal Estate Tax. Under his leadership, AFBF has substantially improved awareness of the estate tax’s detrimental economic effects.

The American Family Business Foundation has played an important and integral part in shedding light on the role of large life insurance companies in maintaining the estate tax. AFBF has led the way in disseminating vital information that has helped everyday Americans understand the connection between small business, the economy, jobs and the estate tax. Dick’s leadership in calling attention to the economic hardships placed on small business by the estate tax has been covered in the New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and countless other print publications across the nation.

Now, in an unprecedented effort to message to the grassroots, AFBF is leading the charge to tell Americans the story of small business and the challenges they face in a comprehensive online social media campaign.

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