When the GOP released their "Framework" for tax reform last month, official Washington got excited that they could finally chew on all sorts of wonky tax details. That's why it was very disappointing to read that Senate Finance Committee Republicans were considering keeping the death tax in place. The simplest part of the White House-Senate-House tax reform "Framework" is at the same time one of the most powerful:The Framework repeals the death and generation-skipping transfer taxes. So it's imperative that Republicans unite around tax reform in a way that they never managed to on health care reform. Death tax repeal does all these things.

Source: Forbes October 27, 2017 21:56 UTC