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Death Tax for Everyone!

Brian Doherty | 2.11.2003 2:41 AM

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The Cato Institute's David Boaz argues in this Fox News column that Social Security is the most heinous "death tax" of all--since its forced saving of over 12 percent of our income leaves us with nothing that we personally own and can pass on as part of our estate.

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Brian Doherty was a senior editor at Reason and author of Ron Paul's Revolution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired (Broadside Books).

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