Yes, I think you may have misunderstood what I said. There are people worried about the threshold lowering, e.g., taxing estates of only a few hundred thousand,

Yes, I think you may have misunderstood what I said. There are people worried about the threshold lowering, e.g., taxing estates of only a few hundred thousand, or perhaps anything (I'm not saying a lowering to this degree is remotely likely.) So they complain about the estate tax at its current levels. It's an example of the tug-of-war mentality that appears in much of American politics.