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Always love the chance to undermine them . . .
A few months ago I got a call from some group that was out to eliminate the Estate Tax. I forget what group, it was a call center that they'd hired to make the calls anyway. The caller read a script full of the usual "death tax" "lose the family farm/business" "big government" talking points. I asked her if she was in line to inherit over $5 million, she said no. She didn't know that only multi-million-dollar estates are taxed. I explained to her the specifics of the Estate tax, the fact that it affects only 3 in 1000 estates, and that no one was ever able to cite an actual "family farm" that was lost by paying any "death tax". I pointed out that she was spending the day calling people to get them to support letting people like Paris Hilton and the Waltons off the hook by making their inheritances tax-free. And that the lost revenue would need to be made up somewhere else, like increased taxes on working people. I then asked her who she thought should get a tax break, Paris Hilton or people who work for a living.
It probably ruined her day. She said she was going to ask for a different assignment at the call center. :D
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