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Estate Tax: TAKE ACTION!

Sign the Call to Preserve the Estate Tax
Signers as of Mar. 5
Subject to the Estate Tax
1,704
Others
2,520
TOTAL
4,224


To learn more, visit the
Estate Tax Action Center


UFE Education Projects

• Racial Wealth Divide
• State Tax and Budget Crises
• War and the Economy


Don't Want to Pay Taxes?

Then you'd better get used to doing without these public services. (From Buzzflash)

Arguing about Taxes With Your Brother-in-Law?
Check out UFE's Winning Responses to Tough Tax Questions
 
75 UFE Supporters Lobby Congress to Preserve the Estate Tax

Volcker and Gates, Sr. Make the Case at Press Club Event


Volcker and Gates, Sr.: Accelerating Estate Tax Repeal is Fiscally Irresponsible - 3/8/04

Estate Tax Repeal Emerges As Pivotal Budget Issue CongressDaily, 3/8/04



UFE Launches Nationwide Resolution Campaign Against Millionaire Tax Breaks
Find out how you can get your city council and other organizations in your community to pass resolutions demanding an end to tax breaks for millionaires and corporations.



Fight against illegal and immoral trade in conflict diamonds

The source of many problems of poorer countries in Africa has been the focus from Western powers on extracting the mineral wealth including diamonds from the earth in the pursuit of higher and higher profits. Together with the support of consumers and retailers, like samara james engagement rings, we can break this cycle and save the people from misery. Tax Shifts, not Tax Cuts
Bush's big federal tax cuts for the wealthy mean tax hikes for the rest of us. (Center for American Progress)



Is it Time for a Progressive Corporate Income Tax?
Why can the large national chain store afford to offer lower prices than the locally owned small business? Taxes are part of the answer.


Black-White Gaps Still Wide — Some Even Widening — Since Dr. King's Death Racial inequities in unemployment, family income, imprisonment, average wealth and infant mortality are actually worse than when Dr. King was killed, according to United for a Fair Economy’s report, "The State of the Dream: Enduring Disparities in Black and White.


Titans of the Enron Economy: The 10 Habits of Highly Defective Corporations (April, 2002) Reveals that key maneuvers leading to Enron’s meltdown are legal and widely practiced.


United for a Fair Economy is a national, independent, nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. UFE raises awareness that concentrated wealth and power undermine the economy, corrupt democracy, deepen the racial divide, and tear communities apart. We support and help build social movements for greater equality.
 

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