Untaxing Representedness

I’ve come across an interesting article today, in which Bill Gates speaks out against the estate tax.

It is quite well-written, succinct, offering up a spattering of fact, some opinion, and a fair amount of implication. There’s something fairly convincing about the wealthiest man I can think of arguing that we should take his dough.

Of course, he also writes this with full knowledge of who our manufactured leader is and the inevitability of a vast array of tax breaks for the wealthy. So is he hedging his bets. I suppose that once you hit the billions and billions mark, a little altruism doesn’t hurt too much anyway. However, I actually do believe that he wrote the article in earnest. Breaking the bourgeois will make it difficult to sell the latest Windows Masterpiece.