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That, however, fails to account for the untold number of businesses that get sold prior to an owner's death--precisely to avoid the estate tax. By selling before death, a small-business owner may avoid the death tax in exchange for paying a capital-gains tax at a rate of just 20%. Proceeds from the sale remain subject to the estate tax, but liquid assets are far more easily sheltered through trusts, charitable contributions and annual gifts...
Other studies paint a grimmer picture. The National Association of Women Business Owners puts the number of lost jobs nationally at 39 per small business over the past five years. It found that to prepare for the estate tax, half of all small businesses pay for insurance, 40% forgo investment, 40% plan to sell all or part of the business and 33% plan to incur debt--all choices that hurt the economy...
...rack of sumptuous $200 wedding dresses in the back of her shop. "I want to make Vietnamese look beautiful." But in a city where a college graduate would be happy to land a job paying $100 a month, her $12 shirts and $30 dresses are for only a small number of young people with money...
...Roger Staubach-autographed football I had received for Christmas (which he had graciously signed despite the fact that my well-meaning mother had sent him a Joe Namath ball), I decided I was through with the game then and there. I think I suspected that there are a finite number of broken hearts a girl can mend, and knew to save up the bandages for the important stuff, like unrequited love or the cancellation of Melrose Place...
...prepared for such fourth-quarter doldrums with the catch-phrase, "Start blow-drying Teddy Koppel's hair, because this one's done." His patter included a mention of the sword of Damocles poised above San Francisco's offensive line, a riff in which he imagined a player whose jersey number was pi, and the observation that Patriots head coach Bill Belichick "blinks about as frequently as Clint Eastwood in a Sergio Leone film." This isn't just wit. This seems to me to be the point of sportscasters. Football, like all your big American pastimes, is a metaphorical arena...