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> "death tax" is a kind of a charged language. "Estate tax" is equally charged language, even if you aren't superrich and affluent.
by tbrooks 10y ago
> "death tax" is a kind of a charged language.
"Estate tax" is equally charged language, even if you aren't superrich and affluent.
- ams6110 10y ago"Tax" is charged language in my book.
- mercutio2 10y agoOne phrase is what the US Congress uses to describe the actual, existing tax [0], the other is a phrase created by opponents of the tax in the 1940s [1]. Only one of these words looks charged to me. [0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/subtitle-B/chapter-11 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/subtitle-B/chapte... [1] http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2010/12/16/132031116/a-history-of-how-we-got-from-estate-tax-to-death-tax http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2010/12/16/132031116/...