. . . Or Unfair Burden on Families?:

I won't go into why it's a bad move by the Senate. Mallaby does a far more eloquent job.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/04/AR2006060400782.html

I do have a question for Session's piece.

"Finally, the American people already understand the unfairness of the death tax and support its repeal. Sixty-eight percent of those surveyed in a recent poll commissioned by the Tax Foundation supported repeal of the estate tax. Moreover, the death tax was rated by Americans in the same survey as the least fair tax ."

Who did they survey? I'd have questions about the criteria before I beleived this whopper.

Actually looking at the Web site

http://www.taxfoundation.org/

I can't even find evidence of a survey. There's PDF of a report, but no survey.

http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/1635.html

This sounds kind of really bogus to me.

The other thing is the use of the black millionaire argument. It is pretty funny and effective. However the argument that the Defender nearly went out of business because of the Estate Tax is a great fish tale. How did the Chandlers, Ochs, grahams somehow keep their papers within the family without being destroyed by the estate tax? Maybe the Defender was already dying with integration. Maybe it wasn't worth that much. Maybe their was a family squabble. Who knows, but one sentence in Sessions piece sounds like crap to me