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According to the below quote/link there is no estate tax up to 2 million for 2007 and up to 3.5 million in 2009 to 2011.
The number of people in North America with more than 1 million dollars is .62 percent of the population.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millionaire
So if you paid a federal estate tax the estate was worth more than 2 million dollars.
How come non of you will touch this with a ten foot gold plated pole,"Where wealth is hereditary, power is hereditary. "-John Locke?
Republican philosophy;LIfe begins at conception,ends at birth,but begins again at death if there are assets(the assets are alive and have rights).
Money is God for Republicans and LIbertarians
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_tax_in_the_United_States
For a person dying during 2006, 2007, or 2008, the "applicable exclusion amount" is $2,000,000, so if the sum of the taxable estate plus the "adjusted taxable gifts" made during lifetime equals $2,000,000 or less, there is no federal estate tax to pay. According to the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, the applicable exclusion will increase to $3,500,000 in 2009, the estate tax is repealed in 2010, but then the act "sunsets" in 2011 and the estate tax reappears with an applicable exclusion amount of only $1,000,000 (unless Congress acts before then).