I just finished reading an article recom­mended by Richard about the estate tax, titled “Death and taxes”. It appears in New Statesman, a UK magazine “created in 1913 with the aim of perme­ating the educated and influ­ential classes with socialist ideas.” I’m glad I read the article in full before reading the magazine’s history, as […]

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You can count on only two things in life — death and taxes. Actually, more like two and a half things, because there is also taxes upon death. The estate tax raises revenue by taxing the wealth people leave behind when they die. That’s a good thing. If we could, I would suggest only taxing dead […]

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A few days ago, super-investor Warren Buffett announced he would be donating the majority of his consid­erable assets to Bill Gates’ Foundation, and he’s been rightly commended in the media for his generosity. But for some reason, the ordinarily smart-minded folks at the Tax Policy Foundation have a bone to pick with Buffett over his […]

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