Kidney Stone Horrors Explain Why The Estate Tax Should Be Abolished - Forbes

Kidney Stone Horrors Explain Why The Estate Tax Should Be Abolished - Forbes: ll of which brings up the estate tax. Many in our midst believe it’s essential. Some say we need it to reduce the budget deficit despite unrelentingly observable evidence that a dollar handed over to a profligate Congress leads to government spending exponentially greater than the initial dollar. Basically funds handed to Congress lead to the birth of programs that are near impossible to abolish. So no, deficit reduction is decidedly not a good reason to impose an estate tax.