Deborah McGregor in the Financial Times, May 16, 2002 This Financial Times piece provides a brief overview of the efforts of both sides of the estate tax debate. It also notes that, "full repeal of the estate tax would cost ... $53.4bn in 2011, with the figure increasing in subsequent years ... [in other words], repeal would be more than double the annual cost of the hefty new farm bill Mr Bush recently signed into law."