As a CPA, I'm actually interested in tax policy in a more in depth fashion than tea partiers who oppose all taxes on principle. Opportunities to write about this topic, though, have been few and far between. Thanks to our newly minted all-Republican legislature, I now have my shot.
On January 1st of this new year, the estate tax has been completely repealed. Most of you probably read "estate tax" and wonder what the hell I'm talking about. Instead, you may know it by it's more colloquial title, the "death tax," or as conservatives refer to it: