And why wouldn't the wealthiest

Americans be burdened by the death tax? After all, they already have teams

of lawyers and personal accountants who make sure their estates are far

from the grasp of Uncle Sam. They have the means to donate millions to

charity, while hard-working Americans are simply trying to pass on the

family business, or farm.

The repeal of the death tax

is not aimed at America's multimillionaires and billionaires, who are

already practically tax-exempt through tax loopholes. It aims to help

middle Americans with family farms or businesses; those whom have worked

hard, struggled, and saved; the Americans who don't have the resources

to hire a team of accountants to throw their estates through IRS loopholes.

Perhaps William Buffet and

his billionaire friends can't understand the plight hard-working, successful

middle Americans. After all, I can't imagine Buffet's children having

to sell the family farm, or close the family business in order to grease

Uncle Sam's palm.

To add flame to the fire, house

representative Tom Daschle came out with his illogical and knowingly deceptive

comparison of the "Lexus tax break" and the "muffler tax

break." Obviously mistaking Lexus for the new official U.S. currency,

Daschle told reporters that under Bush's tax plan an American earning

$1 million per year would save enough money to buy a new Lexus, or, in

U.S. dollars, $35,000. What he fails to mention is that the same "evil,

greedy millionaire" is paying $360,000 dollars in income tax each

year, enough to buy six of the Cadillac limousines that Tom Daschle shuffles

around Washington in, at taxpayers' expense.

The billionaires and multimillionaires

continue to fuel the class war against middle America: the hard-working,

silent Atlas.

Christopher Armstrong

Peachtree City