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Repealing the estate tax is dumb

But we could do better than the status quo

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Matthew Yglesias
Mar 18, 2021
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If you die, then your assets will pass tax-free to your spouse. And if you don’t have a spouse, then your assets will almost certainly pass on tax-free to your heirs. But if you are very rich and have over $11 million in assets as a single person or $22 million assets as a married…

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