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...against the estate tax, then, is fairness. From a progressive standpoint, few taxes are as fairly distributed as the estate tax: the revenue generated by the estate tax is twice the amount generated by the federal income taxes of the poorest half of all taxpayers. Furthermore, although only the wealthiest 1.4 percent of Americans pay the tax, the revenue is used for government programs and services that help all citizens...
...this unfair to the wealthiest 1.4 percent? If the estate tax were the only tax on the books, then it would be unfair, just as having only a cigarette tax would be unfair to smokers. But the estate tax is only one part of a broader tax scheme, and it makes no sense to talk about the fairness of the estate tax in isolation...
...proposed tax plan includes no cuts for families making over $300,000 per year, of fuzziness. In contrast, Bush's plan is strikingly unfuzzy: He believes that families earning $300,000 per year ought to receive a 9.7 percent tax cut, in spite of the widening disparity between the wealthiest and poorest Americans...
...billion tax cut through the Texas legislature, a move which he has often trumpeted as evidence of his opposition to taxation. In fact, this was a spectacular example of unfuzzy policy: The cut, which came mostly out of property and sales taxes, was directed straight at the wealthiest Texans, and was financed in part by a $250 million cut in the education budget, one of whose primary effects was the tabling of a proposal for free mandatory kindergarten for Texas children. Presumably Gore's proposed increases in spending on education, especially those which target public schools, some of which...
...Park, Calif., he found they didn't want to open their cozy world to hordes of retail investors. VCs were doing fine logging triple-digit gains by making early bets on dotcoms before they went public and swimming in cash raised from the likes of pension funds and the wealthiest individual investors...