SitNews - Column:'Death tax' debate alive and kicking in Senate By ANN McFEATTERS

SitNews - Column:'Death tax' debate alive and kicking in Senate By ANN McFEATTERS: "Death tax' debate alive and kicking in Senate
By ANN McFEATTERS
Block News Alliance
August 11, 2005
Thursday

WASHINGTON - Once again, we are about to be hit with an emotional barrage of misleading 'information' about the nation's urgent need to deal with the federal estate tax, which President Bush dubs the 'death tax' and demands 'must be repealed forever.'

In an essay for The Wall Street Journal, Senate Republican leader Bill Frist of Tennessee, one of the wealthiest members of the Senate, insists the 'death tax is the cruelest, most unfair tax our government imposes.' He said that in the first week after Labor Day he will call for a Senate vote to repeal it. 'There will be no more hiding on the issue of permanent death-tax repeal,' he warned."