The 'Death Tax' Scam : Rolling Stone.
I don't think I've bought a copy of Rolling Stone since maybe the Spin Doctors were tearing up the charts way back in 1992. I occasionally read Matt Taibbi or other random articles if they show up in a news aggregator or somewhere else online.
I did catch word that RS had a recent article on the status of the Federal Estate Tax. The article shines some light on who exactly is working the phones to scale back the estate tax once if phases out in 2010.
From the article (full version only in print):
Many of the families are household names. There is the Mars
family, makers of M&Ms and other candy, who would avoid
$10 billion in estate taxes. There is the Gallo family, whose
winemaker patriarch hoped to save an estimated $500 million
from abolishing the tax. There are the Nordstroms, of
department-store fame; the Dorrances, makers of Campbell's soup;
and the Wegmans, owners of supermarkets by the same name. And there
is the Walton family, owners of Walmart, a clan whose worth may
exceed $75 billion. Their personal profit from repealing the
estate tax would total $30 billion — roughly the gross
domestic product of Jordan.
So I think I'll head to the newsstands, if they actually have newsstands anymore. The added plus is I get to read up on Lady GaGa.
