As he raised estate tax rates to fund work programs during the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, “The transmission from generation to generation of vast fortunes by will, inheritance or gift is not consistent with the ideals and sentiments of the American people.”
It’s plenty consistent with the ideals and sentiments of President Trump, who began lying about the merits of an estate tax repeal on the day he began the tax overhaul effort.
“To protect millions of small businesses and the American farmer, we are finally ending the crushing, the horrible, the unfair estate tax, or as it is often referred to, the death tax,” Mr. Trump said in late September.

Congressional Republicans echoed Mr. Trump’s whoppers.

Full story: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/20/opinion/estate-tax-trump-republicans.html

SUBSCRIBE
http://www.youtube.com/MikeMalloyVideo

PLEASE SUPPORT THE MIKE MALLOY YOUTUBE CHANNEL
http://tinyurl.com/MalloyChannelDonations

MIKE MALLOY YOUTUBE CHANNEL PATREON PAGE
https://www.patreon.com/MikeMalloyShow

VISIT THE MIKE MALLOY SHOW HOMEPAGE
http://www.mikemalloy.com/

SUBSCRIBE TO AN AUDIO/VIDEO PODCAST
http://www.mikemalloy.com/register/