If my memory serves me correctly, it was the Democrats in Congress who forced the death tax not to become history and wanted a time limit on it with the 2011 return.
Obama and his lib friends in Congress remain the party that refuses to let a tax wither and die that actually causes you to pay taxes twice and destroys many family businesses and farms.
The take by the Dems that to do otherwise is to “disenfranchise the treasury” is really a grim and frightening way to look at it.