Re: No More Estate Taxes?

From: Nancy Slator <neslator@amherst.edu>
Subject: Re: No More Estate Taxes?
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 18:50:41 -0500 (EST)

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> From: Jeff Salisbury <jeff.salisbury@xmission.com>
> 
> The bottom line is this--if you have an estate over $650,000, then you
> need to be concerned about estate taxes.  

I think estate taxes are the fairest tax of all.  They don't take any
money away from people who earned it and they don't take money away from
people who need it.  If my parents had a net worth over $650,000, I would
have gone to boarding school and an Ivy League college, and then I could
have been given the seed money to start my own business.  I wouldn't be
saddled with college loans and I'd probably be well on my way to having my
house paid for.  And I would have all these benefits without having lifted
a finger -- just by the good luck of having been born into affluence.

After I take all that to the bank, if the government gets between me and
the fortune my parents worked hard for, I don't have much to complain
about.

- -- Nancy Slator, neslator@amherst.edu


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