Check out this Responsible Weath release which says that even more people now prefer keeping or reforming the estate tax, as opposed to repealing it. The release says:

Last week the National Priorities Project released their annual publication Where Do Your Tax Dollars Go? The publication shows how the median income family's income tax dollars are spent for every state and 200 cities, towns and counties. It also looks at the shift in how tax dollars were spent in 2005 compared with 2000. For example, NPP has found that the military's share of the income tax dollar has risen by 20 percent since 2000, while the share of spending has dropped for job training (-21 percent), environment (-19 percent), housing (-7 percent) and veteran's benefits (-2 percent).

In a surprising collapse late yesterday afternoon, the House GOP leadership pulled the 2007 budget resolution from floor consideration and gave up any efforts to pass the bill before the two-week April recess. Lacking the votes to pass the resolution, new GOP Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) failed in his first major test as head of the new leadership team in the House. Boehner had made statements earlier this week vowing to pass a budget before the recess or abandon efforts to pass one at all. On April 4, he asked rhetorically, "If we don't do it this week, why do it at all?"

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