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Episode 241: The Death Tax for the Rest of Us

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I Don't Know a Lot About the Estate Tax

This week, Ant and James talk about changes in the estate tax that Joe Biden has proposed. Polls show Americans viscerally dislike the idea of a death tax but it hits very few people like on the order of one tenth of one percent of tax filers have to pay a state tax. The total amount of tax revenue the federal government collects on the estate tax is less than 1% of the federal budget.

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