UnionLeader.com - New Hampshire news, business and sports - Bob Backus: Balance the budget with an estate tax on the wealthiest - Friday, Jun. 12, 2009

UnionLeader.com - New Hampshire news, business and sports - Bob Backus: Balance the budget with an estate tax on the wealthiest - Friday, Jun. 12, 2009: "And then there is the estate tax. This is a tax that people too often do not think about rationally. It is derided as a 'death tax.' Why dying should be any less a trigger for a revenue charge than buying property is never explained. In any event, the tax does not fall on the person who died, obviously, but on that person's estate."