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Monday, June 12, 2006
Follow Up on Kasoff Op-ed in The Hill
About a month ago there was an op-ed in The Hill by Women Impacting Public Policy president Barbara Kasoff that spun estate tax repeal as being positive for women and minority business owners. Not only was the article chalk full of misleading statements, but it was written by the president of a group whose members have a special financially lucrative interest in seeing the estate tax repealed (for more information see our previous blog posting on the article.
To follow up on Kasoff's article, The Hill ran an excellent letter in response (scroll down, it is the second item). In the letter, Mark Sorensen exposes Kasoff for producing "a solid work of fiction," pointing out that "the female Louisiana business owner whom Kasoff holds up as a poster child for repeal has a lot more to worry about right now than the estate tax. Only 0.03 percent of estates are even eligible for the tax."
Posted by Becky Lewis
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