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Estate-Tax Repeal Is the Original Phony Populism

Silver Spoons

What Republicans renamed the ‘death tax,’ is really the millionaire’s inheritance tax, affecting only 0.2% of the population. Yet they’ve convinced working-class voters to cut it.

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