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Death Tax for Everyone!

Brian Doherty | 2.11.2003 2:41 AM


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.

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