{"id":1590,"date":"2005-06-06T15:08:11","date_gmt":"2005-06-06T22:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/estate-tax-malarkey\/"},"modified":"2005-06-06T15:08:11","modified_gmt":"2005-06-06T22:08:11","slug":"estate-tax-malarkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/estate-tax-malarkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Estate Tax Malarkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Estate Tax Malarkey - FactCheck.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/article328m.html\">Estate Tax Malarkey &#8211; FactCheck.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Misleading ads exaggerate what the tax costs farmers, small businesses and &#8220;your family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Summary<\/p>\n<p>In TV and radio ads two conservative groups greatly overstate the burden that the federal estate tax puts on heirs to a family farm or business.<\/p>\n<p>One ad claims the federal estate tax &#8220;can bury your family in crippling tax bills,&#8221; which is untrue for nearly all of those who will see the ad, including the large majority of farm and business owners. Both ads claim the estate tax is a &#8220;double tax,&#8221; which is only partly true, and mostly false when it comes to very wealthy families.<\/p>\n<p>We take no position on whether the estate tax should or should not be repealed permanently. The claims made in these one-sided ads, however, present a misleading picture of who is actually affected by the tax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estate Tax Malarkey &#8211; FactCheck.org Misleading ads exaggerate what the tax costs farmers, small businesses and &#8220;your family.&#8221; Summary In TV and radio ads two conservative groups greatly overstate the burden that the federal estate tax puts on heirs to a family farm or business. One ad claims the federal estate tax &#8220;can bury your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/estate-tax-malarkey\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Estate Tax Malarkey<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}