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While many proponents of the estate tax argue that it is the most progressive tax in the tax code, the fact is that it produces less than 1 percent of annual federal tax revenue while hurting family businesses.
Chuck Collins | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics
Sometimes you can't declare victory until the other side concedes defeat. That's what happened Monday in the decade-long struggle over the future of the estate tax, our nation's only levy on inherited wealth.
David Dayen | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
Paying for health care reform is all a matter of priorities -- help millions of uninsured people get the critical care they need, or give Paris Hilton a tax cut.
Harry Moroz | Posted 05.16.2009 | Business
The estate tax is not about confiscating wealth for redistribution, but about encouraging spending during a wealthy individual's lifetime and limiting the intergenerational transfer of wealth.
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 05.15.2009 | Politics
The Wall Street Journal editorializes about the evils of the estate tax. Ari Fleischer is trotted out to complain that "redistribution of income" through the tax code "is getting out of hand." Really?
Bob Greenstein | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics
How did Senate proponents sell their colleagues on the idea of spending so much money to benefit the estates of the wealthiest one quarter of one percent of Americans who die?
Jordan M. Atin | Posted 07.29.2008 | Living
Even though every family is different, there are similarities in the roles and personalities adopted by the participants in an estate fight, with many assuming the role they have played in the family since childhood.
Jordan M. Atin | Posted 07.08.2008 | Business
Anticipating how their children will feel when they read those last words in the will is crucial if parents want to leave the most important legacy for their children -- family peace.
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
Lashing out at the "estate tax" is nothing new for most Republicans -- though it would seem to be for Sen. John McCain. One way you can tell is by sim...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Robert L. Johnson, the billionaire founder of Black Entertainment Television, injected himself into the middle of a flaring campaign controversy on Su...
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Dick Patten | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business