On AlterNet: estate tax

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "estate tax"

Tax Deal Being Sold on Fear

Dean Baker, AlterNet. December 13, 2010.

The establishment is telling us that if Congress doesn’t approve the package Obama negotiated with the GOP, it will be the end of the world!

10 Ways to Force the Stinking Rich to Share Their Wealth

Zach Carter, AlterNet. April 15, 2010.

How rich people can stop whining about the deficit and start paying their taxes.

Stephen King Meets the Estate Tax

Bill Gates, Sr., Chuck Collins, AlterNet. December 21, 2009.

What horrors will befall our nation's wealthy when one of the most bizarre twists in tax legislation in history comes to pass?

Why Shouldn't Paris Hilton Pay Her Fair Share?

Brian Miller, AlterNet. December 17, 2009.

If Congress doesn't act, the richest among us will get a huge windfall next year.

Victory: Taxing Wealth Dynasties Will Continue

Chuck Collins, AlterNet. October 5, 2009.

Last Monday, a coalition of lobbyists and families finally gave up on trying to abolish the federal estate tax, the only tax on inherited wealth.

Surprise! Higher Taxes on the Rich Wildly Popular

Chris Bowers, Open Left. April 15, 2009.

Who could've seen this one coming?

Much Ado About Taxes, Conservatives, and the Wealthy

Robert L. Borosage, Huffington Post. April 15, 2009.

"The wealthiest few captured ever more of the nation's income while successfully lowering their tax rates."

Tax Day: You Pay Your Taxes -- Why Don't the Rich Pay Their Share?

Chuck Collins, Sam Pizzigati, AlterNet. April 15, 2009.

Few Americans realize just how incredibly little our nation's wealthy now pay in taxes. Our grandparents seriously taxed the rich. Why can't we?

Ten Conservative 'Democrats' Vote for Bill That Protects the Children of Multimillionaires

Satyam Khanna, ThinkProgress. April 3, 2009.

This ridiculous bill passed thanks to these ten dems.

Scott McClellan Isn't Exposing Bush's Economic Big Lies

Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. June 12, 2008.

Yes, the administration lied repeatedly to get us into Iraq, but what about the spin campaign around the estate tax?

Warren Buffett to Congress: Keep Taxing the Mega-Rich

Chuck Collins, AlterNet. November 19, 2007.

Calls "death tax" rhetoric "intellectually dishonest" and "clever, Orwellian and dead wrong."

Maybe We Deserve to Be Ripped Off By Bush's Billionaires

Matt Taibbi, RollingStone.com. February 20, 2007.

While America obsessed about Brittany's shaved head, Bush offered a budget that offers $32.7 billion in tax cuts to the Wal-Mart family alone, while cutting $28 billion from Medicaid.

2006 Injustice By the Numbers:

Elana Levin, December 28, 2006.

40 Facts on The State of Inequality in America