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A sad day for Paris Hilton.

By ThinkProgress on Jun 8, 2006 at 5:19 pm

A bill to repeal the estate tax on the ultra-rich was just defeated in the Senate. “The vote was a big defeat both for President Bush and for Senate Republican leaders, who had framed their opposition to what they called the ‘death tax’ as a popular and even populist crusade.”

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