"Next week, even as the national debt grows by another $11 billion and
military recruiters scramble with ever-mounting desperation to fill their
quotas, the Senate will reassemble to take up the proposal, already passed
by the House, to permanently eliminate the estate tax, thereby shifting some
$1.5 billion a week--about the same as the Iraq war--from the public
treasury to the bank accounts of the heirs to the nation's twenty thousand
biggest fortunes."

The New Yorker, Sept. 5, 2005 Talk of the Town