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What is the estate tax?
How are family business owners and farmers affected by the estate tax?
Estate Tax Truth, a project of the American Family Business Foundation, was established to help answer these questions.
Estate Tax Truth provides a unique combination of serious economic analysis and personal documentaries. We hope that our resources will help you to understand how the estate tax impacts family business owners, farmers, and entrepreneurs and the costs it imposes on the economy as a whole.
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Ray Brincks' entire family helped build and maintain their ranch. His kids even gave up college to follow the family dream. Now they stand to lose their life-work.
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Majority of Americans think Death Tax is unjust -
Americans don't think about this issue in terms of dollar amounts, they think about it in terms of values--even people of modest means don't think it is fair.
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Democrat Congressman calls for Estate Tax Repeal
"small businesses are the fabric of the American dream, and the estate tax tears that fabric apart..."
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Should We Keep Corporate Welfare - Huffington Post
Large life insurance companies see the estate tax as their primary sales point with aging family business owners. This year, alone, the top eight life insurance companies spent more than $18 million lobbying to secure favorable estate tax legislation...