Helen Walton, Dead

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Not to get into a fight about the estate tax, but when you are talking about that much money, it is obscene to say that the government doesn't get a share. You know that in no way has she paid her fair share of taxes. By percentage of income, most people on this board have paid at a higher percentage.
And don't get into that crap about the estate tax taking family farms. Not a single person has ever found an instance where someone had to give up their family business over estate taxes.
And remember it isn't like her heirs are going to have beg for change. Walton's three surviving children are all worth in the same neighborhood as her.
So instead of getting $5.5 billion, and putting them above a worth of $21 billion, they get $5 billion instead and that still puts them in the $21 billion. That's $21,000,000,000.
If every single person on SportsJournalists.com, all 7172 members made $40,000 a year, it would take all of us working the next 80 years to hit that kind of money.

 

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