and what do they get from it? right there, dorber? from a safe distance. so there s there s something called a baptism bootlegger coalition. and the the bootleggers in this case are rent seeking industry that people who , for example,se i was, as i like to say,s innocently practicing law ing la washington a very long timw ineg go when i went in house with an energy company as director of federal government, relations briefly and i learneds br their business plan was designed arounieflarned thd somt they had essentially cooked up. and that was ken lay s enron. s and enron had the world sworld second largest gas pipeline outside of gazprom. s and they just bought the world s largest windmill company. i m using them as an example becaus e they were among the chief bootleggers. and so enron set about to workoo with their friends. ken lay was very good at this to add value by by through wealth transfers, from making the public buy their stuff or guarantee either coercing youu o to buy it,
Once the headache of the wealthy, the estate tax (also known as thedeath tax) now reaches well into middle-class America. The taxreduces incentives to save and invest and, therefore, hampersgrowth. It also unfairly hits owners of small businesses, familyfarms, and savers who amass wealth through hard work and thrift.The Economic Growth And Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 wasthe first step toward eliminating the death tax. Unfortunately, itsprovisions sunset in 2011. Congress should make estate tax repealpermanent.
Myths abound in housing. They influence the way those in the market behave. More importantly, they distort the housing debate and the government policies that follow.
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