Tuesday, November 09, 2004

BW Online | August 9, 2002 | Liberty, Equality...and the Death Tax

BW Online | August 9, 2002 | Liberty, Equality...and the Death Tax: "Liberty, Equality...and the Death Tax
Any serious debate about the future of estate taxes must touch on entrepreneurial initiative, trusts, and our convoluted revenue code
The casualty list from the stock market funk is long and growing. The bear market has transformed CEOs from celebrities forging the New Economy to malefactors of wealth. The popular idea of early retirement funded by a windfall of double-digit stock market gains has gone the way of the 35-hour workweek. The political movement to privatize Social Security has collapsed as stock values have cascaded lower for nearly three years. The fashionable notion that federal surpluses stretched as far as the eye could see proved false "

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