Death Tax? Double Tax? For Most, It's No Tax - New York Times

Death Tax? Double Tax? For Most, It's No Tax - New York Times: "Death Tax? Double Tax? For Most, It's No Tax

By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
Published: August 14, 2005

WASHINGTON

WHEN Congress comes back from its summer recess, one of the first things Senate Republicans will try to do, again, is kill the estate tax.

Perhaps no other tax has so many passionate, persevering and politically organized opponents as the estate tax, or 'death tax,' as they have branded it."