Tax helps society recoup investment

Estate tax

EDITORIAL
Tax helps society recoup investment: "Tax helps society recoup investment
By BRUCE HERBERT
GUEST COLUMNIST
Recent TV ads depict a World War II vet opposing the federal estate tax. But gutting the tax would actually undo much that the greatest generation fought and worked for their entire lives -- by converting into private benefit for a few the last full measure these men and women devoted to American values of fair play, freedom and opportunity for all.
Many of the greatest generation (including my father, a WWII fighter pilot) benefited significantly from investments society made on their behalf -- such as the GI Bill that financed the education of many returning vets"