Bush II; Day 543: Gosh, that's a surprise

The estate tax is opposed by 18 of the most super-wealthy famlies in the country. Who'd a thunk?

Now, the results of the report issued by Public Citizen sound suspiciously the conspiracy theory "international cabal" stuff of novels, but it doesn't mean they're untrue. You gotta be inheriting a chunk of change to have the estate tax hit you hard. And these families (like the family behind Wal-Mart, as one example) certainly are doing that.

I'm just having trouble stirringup the sympathy for them, though.