WaPo Media Notes on Death Tax

I admit I was surprised that Howard Kurtz covered the Death Tax legislation which the GOP rammed through the House. If the Dem's are looking for something to add to their arsenal in 2006, this piece of legislation is flawed and just more of the same from the GOP.

By a 238-194 vote, the House rejected a Democratic alternative that would have shielded $3.5 million of an estate's value from taxation -- enough to exempt 99.7 percent of estates from the tax, according to the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution.

In most tax debates during this administration, President Bush and the GOP say their tax cuts will help everyone, the Democrats say they will disproportionately benefit the rich, everyone trots out their charts and the argument rages. Democrats say trickle-down, Republicans say class warfare, yadda yadda yadda.

But here we have a case in which the Republicans have gone on record as trying to protect the top 0.3 percent, the richest households by far in the US of A.