I remember hearing a few months ago the revelation that the campaign to repeal the Estate Tax, the tax recently rebuked by Congress but likely to resurface again any time soon and perilously close to action, has basically been financed by Eighteen families.

18. Worth a collective $185.5 billion. 18 Families have greased the engines so that the term “Death Tax” has come to be not laughed out of political discussion.

This is a sort of mirror moment where we compare the situation with a nation that is worse off than ours. This is analogious to Mexico and its ruleship by … is it 30?… is it 40? … ruling families, holding up an oligarchic government.

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