For as long as there have been politicians, they have hidden their true purposes by giving laws names that disguise what they actually do. One such law is the estate tax. It should be called the “death tax.” Just as a sales tax is paid when somebody sells you something, and an income tax is triggered when you earn income, the death tax comes when you die. So rather than conjure visions of IRS grave robbing, the politicians named it the estate tax. Read More