Inheritance Tax

In case you missed it, the You and Yours Blawg recently posted about a nice Washington Post opinion piece called "Tax Inheritance, Not Death."   

Like Deirdre R. Wheatley-Liss, who runs the You and Yours Blawg, I take issue with the authors' statement that "opponents of estate tax repeal have fallen back on a divisive class-warfare approach. The estate tax affects fewer than two percent of the richest Americans. Thus, they argue, the other ninety-eight percent of the population should oppose repeal." 

I'm sure some anti-repeal folks might be trying the class-warfare approach, but others are surely responding to the lies of the pro-repealers, who often try to convince Joe and Jane Middle Class America that their estates will be subject to estate tax.  If individuals in favor of repeal want to write articles with titles like "Estate tax hurts black Americans," then they shouldn't take offense when people opposed to repeal calculate (in this article) that the actual number of black Americans hurt by the estate tax this year is... 59 (dropping to 33 in 2009).