pithiest of remarks -
Things should be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.

I appreciate your deconstructing it though; guess I've seen too much snake oil to often go through the motions, any more. Prop 13 in CA comes to mind - all those unintended consequences, culminating in CA moving from #1? 3? in Educational performance to.. wtf we are now -- #67 or something, just ahead of Georgia?.

But 13 was So Simple - see, you can keep your house tax low [and Much-more importantly, for being left-out of the equation and the pandering to voters: Bizness could evade, finally, Most-all Their property taxes too] Etc. Save-$$-Get Dumbth.

Still, Joe-sixpack, ever anxious to get back to NASCAR on the 120" Tee Vee - - won't be seeing your list reprinted anywhere he reads (Hotrod? Hustler?). And the Vader cabal, ever assisted by the Nintendo Eloi - are well aware of the progress they've made re eliminating ALL Inheritance taxes, via the same stratagem used in naming other Bills (And in Calif: Propositions)
== Label them the opposite of their intended effect.

PATRIOT Act anyone? Still seems to work.
Ergo: the Orwellian Death Tax campaign will succeed as usual, (further humiliating the US by confirming for all, our tungsten-carbide impenetrable Gullibility)

-OR- some pretty unusual Upset will occur! this time.

I see only two options:
Pray to the $$ God (and any Others of choice)
Sacrifice (enough..) Neoconmen.


Reason, sure as usual, is irrelevant in these matters.
(It's really Hard to acknowledge that, though.. Still! Isn't it?)
I mean.. once upon a time we used to think that -