Mr. Lazio proposes eliminating estate taxes and the marriage penalty; Mrs. Clinton suggests smaller changes that would mitigate the tax burden for the less well-to-do.
And unbelievably, the "working class billionaire" 'populist' proposes eliminating the estate tax, which doesn't claim a single dollar tax from estates worth less than $5.4 million dollars.
There's more counterfactual history from Michael Chabon, whose June novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union (Fourth Estate) proposes a world in which Alaska rather than Israel becomes the Jewish homeland in the 1940s.
Imagine, for example, a handful of concerned citizens running their own simulation of the environmental impact of a proposed real-estate development in their community.
Cockayne notes that immediately after the war, when the government rushed to build new homes, the layout and landscape of proposed new estates was urgently discussed.
The Responsible Estate Tax Act (S.3533) proposes graduated rates on larger estates, closes loopholes, exempts farms and small businesses, and encourages conservation easements.
In September, after President Clinton vetoed estate tax repeal, conservative House Democrats proposed increasing the estate tax exemption, now $1.35 million per couple, to $4 million by 2009, while slicing the top rate from 55% to 44% in 2001.
Mr. Bush also proposes to repeal the estate tax, which he calls the death tax.
Prince estate administrator proposes timeline for claims.
Displayed on 28 billboards throughout Chicago, OVERRIDE questions this widely-seen form of commercial real estate, and proposes how they might be occupied in other, perhaps more meaningful and potentially permanent ways.
