The trick is to live: Is the estate tax social security for the rich?

Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1318-1341

  Kopczuk, Wojciech ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INCOME; SOCIAL SECURITY; TAX SYSTEM;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0942267287     PISSN: 00223808     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/378529     Document Type: Article

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