But even on purely economic grounds, death taxes are spectacular failures as revenue raisers or a tool of income redistribution.
One of the top fund-raisers is a figure out of the history books, Anna Chennault, widow of the famed Flying Tigers founder Gen.
So Congress is adopting a series of "revenue raisers" like Buffalo's that it can package as "loophole" closers or enforcement measures.
Jill Stein as a person I respect and appreciate, but when I too the trouble to seek her out at one of her local fund-raisers, she was a deer in the headlights.
Haggis and Rennard shared a house in Santa Monica, which soon became a hub for progressive political fund-raisers.
Bush matched this effort by appearing as a guest star at carefully chosen fund raisers in key states.
The research was carried out for Case (the Council for Advancement and Support of Education Europe) and the Ross Group, a network of higher education fund-raisers.
Their ideas were solicited through events held all over the state called "Idea Raisers" and then compiled in a book, which served as the foundation of our legislative agenda.
Third, in the Travis County criminal investigation, three of DeLay's most trusted fund-raisers have already been indicted by a grand jury on charges of illegal fund raising and campaigning.
Instead, he attended a back-breaking number of fund-raisers, and asked everyone he and his supporters knew to contribute to his campaign the maximum legal amount of hard money, which was then forty-six hundred dollars.
Ms Noonan sometimes tries to be over-inventive (there is a rather tedious dream sequence about Hollywood fund-raisers).
The Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association estimates the average age of a rancher in the southern Plains is 58 years old.
NGOs have been told that they can't host events with more than 10 people, a stricture that extends even to annual charity fund raisers for the Persian New Year.
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He is benefiting handsomely from the national interest in his candidacy, persuading his party to devote lots of resources to a state that it recently regarded as a black hole, and starring in fund-raisers in New York and Washington.
In dealing with his most productive fund raisers, Gore can be as attentive as a social director at a vacation spa.
For all these reasons fund raisers are learning the delicate art of going through a woman's purse.
The case is being closely watched for the evidence it might produce, which could in turn affect a pending criminal investigation, also in Austin, where a Travis County grand jury has indicted several top fund-raisers on similar charges.
Now there are, of course, Lib Dem revenue raisers - scrap higher rate pension relief, bring in a mansion tax, kill off Trident.
Gingrich will participate in a variety of events from town hall meetings to charity fund-raisers to going on an archaeological dig to touring national parks, ranches and mines.
The individuals under consideration for immunity were part of Democratic Party fund-raisers at the Hsi Lai Temple in Los Angeles and at a dinner at the Hay Adams Hotel here in Washington, both last year.
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