The Socialist 22 November 2017

Unite to kick out the Tories

Budget: lying Hammond says no unemployed

What does the left victory in Scottish Labour mean?

Zimbabwe: Mugabe gone - but his regime remains in power

Australia: massive yes vote for marriage equality

Trump's tax attacks

Scotland: BiFab workers' occupation and march secures jobs and pay guarantee

Usdaw general secretary coronation

Leeds college workers protest poor pay rises

Virgin train workers vote for strike action over pay

Sheffield Eastern Ave Job Centre strike ends

Posh estate agent's housing crisis solution: make your own sandwiches

Them & us

Councils' £1bn on commercial property

NHS cuts kill!

Gentrification on the terraces: fans say twenty's plenty

Carbon dioxide hits 800,000-year high: end profit-driven pollution

Lively student demonstration for free education could have been much bigger

Socialism 2017 Socialist Students meet-up

Nottingham 'Reclaim the Night' march highlights cuts

Southampton: Corbynista success but cuts continue

Disability cuts outrage: my story

Left comic's take on politics will have you in tears

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Trump's tax attacks

Hated Republican president Donald Trump, photo Gage Skidmore (Creative Commons) (Click to enlarge)

Billionaire president Donald Trump is desperate to get his tax plans through the US Senate.

No wonder. Trump wants to abolish the estate tax paid when you die. It is currently paid only on estates worth at least $5.5 million - or $11 million in the case of a couple.

It is charged at just 40% on net worth above that. And because of a multimillion-dollar exemption, the average paid is only about 17%.

Steven Mnuchin is Trump's treasury secretary. Commenting on Trump's efforts to repeal it, he bluntly admitted last month: "Obviously, the estate tax, I will concede, disproportionately helps rich people."

Too right.