A real killing.(Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight Over Taxing Inherited Wealth)(Book Review)
American Prospect, The, May, 2005 by Johnston, David Cay
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DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS: THE FIGHT OVER TAXING INHERITED WEALTH BY MICHAEL J. GRAETZ AND IAN SHAPIRO Princeton University Press, 392 pages, $29.95
THIS BOOK ABOUT THE UNLIKELY success of a small band of the anti-tax rich and their hired hands in attacking the estate tax, the most progressive element of the federal tax system, is public-policy reporting at its finest. But Death by a Thousand Cuts is much more. It is also an important manual on moral arguments in contemporary politics. And taxes are moral issues.
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