WaPo: Estate Tax Bill Likely To Go Nowhere in Senate

Interesting article in today’s Washington Post: Estate Tax, Wage Hike Teetering In Senate, by Jonathan Weisman & Charles Babington:

The House completed its summer work in a flurry of post-midnight debates and votes yesterday, approving changes to the federal minimum wage, estate taxes and pension laws. But with deep divisions lurking in the Senate, it all may go for naught, as have so many other recent efforts, leaving the two chambers open to perhaps the loudest taunts of "do-nothing Congress" in decades.

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Paul Caron

Paul Caron was named Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean of Pepperdine University School of Law on June 1, 2017. Dean Caron joined the Pepperdine faculty in 2013 after serving as the Dorothy and Leonard Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law in the spring semesters of 2010 through 2013. He served as Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at Pepperdine in 2015-2017. Before coming to Pepperdine, he was Associate Dean of Faculty and Charles Hartsock Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.

3 responses to “WaPo: Estate Tax Bill Likely To Go Nowhere in Senate”

Gwailo

July 30, 2006

Combining a minimum wage increase with eviscerating the estate tax is like mixing raisins and turds — no matter how tasty the raisins, the combination is still unappealing.