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To: longnshort who wrote (362774)	12/13/2007 10:08:02 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1576865

"then the owner dies of a heart attack and the family loses everything, is that fair ?" Hmm, ok. According to you, if someone who is living paycheck to paycheck doesn't buy adequate insurance, they should just be left to hang if something happens. Because, you know, they weren't being responsible. But, someone with an estate worth millions of dollars who "gambles" and can only leave his family $2 million plus 54% of anything above that is deserving of a lot of sympathy? And this assumes his wife is dead. If she is still alive, then there is no estate tax due. In addition, the estate is not a business or a farm. In the latter case, the taxes and thresholds are very different. This is the worst case.