The Thin Man, the Thin Deal

    Taxes go back up to Clinton-era levels for those making more than $450,000.00 a year.

     But the slight, and permanent, rise in the estate tax amounts to another huge windfall for the wealthiest among us, who, lest we forget, have vastly increased their wealth over the past two decades.  The unfairness continues.

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