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In our 2nd hour we welcome Dr. Arjun Makhijani.

Arjun Makhijani is President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research

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From labor journalist Sam Pizzigati's webiste "Too Much" we learn that Max Baucus has other things on his plate other than health care.  www.toomuchonline.org/tmweekly.html

U.S. Senate Finance Committee chair Max Baucus from Montana is now drafting legislation that would end the uncertainty over the future of the federal estate tax -- and lock in place the current George W. Bush bargain-basement tax rate on the fortunes America's super rich leave to their heirs. A generation ago, the top estate tax rate on grand fortunes stood at 77 percent. The Bush 2001 tax cut has lowered this year's top rate to 45 percent. Senator Baucus wants that 45 percent made permanent. After deductions, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities noted last week, the actual tax rate on large estates amounts to far less than 45 percent. If the Baucus freeze becomes law, the Center calculates, estates over $20 million would face taxes that average "less than one-quarter" of estate value. Senator John Kyl from Arizona wants to see estate taxes even lower. His proposal would drop the estate tax to 15 percent. Under current law, estate taxes will revert back to pre-George W. levels -- a 55 percent top rate -- in 2011. The Baucus approach would, over the next decade, cost the federal Treasury $609 billion. The cost of the Kyl plan: nearly $1 trillion. The only beneficiaries: the three out of every 1,000 Americans who die with fortunes large enough to trigger estate tax liability.

This is the opposite of what we should be doing right now.  

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