[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Van Hollen, the assistant to the Speaker and the House Democratic negotiator on taxes, noted the estate-tax provision would cost $68 billion over the next two years.

Yeah, because not confiscating assets from dead people would cost the government money.

[Poincare]

A high estate tax is more damaging to small business, and hence employment, than a high income tax. But then the Dims WANT to destroy family farms and businesses.