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Opinion: The GOP's Misguided Fixation on the 'Death Tax'

(Oct. 22) -- I've recently written about the unfocused approach of the Obama administration in its fiscal policy, but it is clear that it has no monopoly on such a lack of focus. A recent article about 250 Republican congressional candidates emphasizing permanent repeal of the estate tax makes clear that they also need a...

Opinion: It's Time to Bring Back the Estate Tax

(Sept. 3) -- The Koch brothers, David and Charles, owners of the second-biggest private company in America, have been the subject of two recent lengthy profiles in The New Yorker and New York magazines for their bankrolling of conservative movements, including the tea party. But the Kochs' politics are more libertarian...

Background on estate taxes

An inheritance tax or estate tax is a levy paid by a person who inherits money or property or a tax on the estate (total value of the money and property) of a person who has died.

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