Back from Vegas and the RightOnline 2010 conference.  Still so far from being caught up, but posted a couple of important stories on the Death Tax.  Check out the EoD News Archive.

Also, click here to read the latest on Danny Tate’s conservatorship case and how you can help!  The May 24 hearing seemed a positive move.  Danny technically was freed and while it seemed a victory, those of us familiar with how these things can play out knew that cautious optimism was in order.  And indeed, it was.

Since then, the plot has - as they say - thickened.  Stay tuned.

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Just enjoyed a great panel on the Death Tax here in Vegas at the AFPF RightOnline conference.

Participants were American Family Business Institute President Dick Patten, syndicated radio host Herman Cain and Americans for Prosperity Director of Policy Phil Kerpen.

“Are we merely taxpaying serfs that when we die our property reverts back to the government as though they owned it in the first place?” Patten asked.

Fifty-seven percent of jobs come from family business and the death tax kills family businesses.

Herman Cain queried the audience “why should the government get rewarded for what your family did?”

We’ll hopefully have some audio to post answering a question posed by EoD’s Lou Ann Anderson regarding the legal industry’s stance on the Death Tax.

Overriding message:  the Death Tax is dead - keep it dead!

To that, we say “Amen!”

We’re at The Venetian here in Las Vegas for the Right Online new media activist training conference.  Americans for Prosperity Foundation, the sponsoring organization, has long been supportive of addressing the inheritance rights issue in which probate venues and/or probate instruments (wills, trusts, guardianships, powers of attorney) are used to divert assets from intended beneficiaries.

It’s ironic that our conference site has great historical significance from an estate dispute standpoint as The Venetian stands on property once occupied by The Sands, the hotel Howard Hughes both owned and used as a residence during the last years of his life.  Hughes’ activities during the time spent living at this hotel helped sow the seeds for, upon his death, what became one of the most infamous  estate disputes in American history.

Last night’s interview with Devvy Kidd is posted on the Multimedia page, but you can also access it here:  DevvyKiddShow100719.  We discussed the general concept of Involuntary Redistribution of Assets (IRA), the  threat to property rights and personal liberty that many unsuspecting Americans could face and Danny Tate as an example of how being especially old or wealthy aren’t criteria for such actions.