and when you ve got, say, the estate tax, where you ve got $68 billion going to 39,000 families over the course of the next two years, that s a lot of money. it s an $850 billion plus package. yes, it s a lot of money. but in $95 billion up against the totality of this package, it s not that much. well, i didn t even mention the upper class, the your total is $114 billion. when you take the upper reaches of the tax bracket, extend their tax cuts, do the estate tax the way it s currently formulated, and you come up with about $114 billion in an $850 billion plus package. it s compromise time. can ci can i say? sure. 1980, 5% of the population had $8 trillion in wealth. 30 years later, 5% of the population has $40 this will in