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• Language Appropriation

  …this month. Conservatives have long been masters of political language. They successfully rebranded the estate tax as the " death tax " and won voters with phrases like "family values." But 2008 may have marked a turning point. "For the …

  By Katie Connolly

  01/21/2009Politics
• Spread The Wealth? What’s New?

  …with the passage of the 16th Amendment in 1913. The federal estate tax we have today came in 1916. McCain is a consistent adherent ……Unlike George W. Bush, McCain supports the retention of an estate tax (he favors reducing it to 15 percent on estates above $5 …

  By Jacob Weisberg

  11/01/2008Newsweek Voices - Jacob Weisberg
• The Right Way Back

  …alternative minimum tax cannot be entirely eliminated. In addition, demand for revenue will necessitate bringing back the estate tax —because it makes too much sense. It will both raise revenue and encourage more wealthy Americans to donate to charity …

  10/25/2008Politics
• Nice Bailout. Now Pay For It!

  …Think about everything Wall Street has been given since the late 1990s: cuts in the capital-gains tax, dividend tax and estate tax , cuts in marginal income tax rates, free-trade agreements, low interest rates, light regulation. The promise was that …

  By Daniel Gross

  09/22/2008Tech and Business
• GOP Convention Spin, Part II

  …president supports plans to raise income taxes, and raise payroll taxes, and raise investment income taxes, and raise the death tax , and raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars. ... How …

  By Viveca Novak

  09/04/2008Politics

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