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CONTENTS:
- Wonder Women
- Inmate Locator
- Spending Millions to Save Billions: The Campaign of the Super Wealthy to Kill the Estate Tax
There seem to be plenty of superheroes in movie theaters these days but these super-women, chosen by Infoplease, are top CEOs. Scroll through to browse the profiles or click on a name on the right side of the page to jump directly to the bio. The list is historical; profiles include former CEO Carly Fiorina of Hewlett-Packard and the deceased Mary Kay Ash.
At the bottom of the page, click on More from Women's History Month, for profiles of famous women (published last March).
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womenceo1.html
Given the number of recent high-profile white-collar convictions, it's not unthinkable that there may be times when you could be focusing your prospecting in a prison. About.com provides an easy way to access online prisoner searches, with links to state and federal sites. Also included on the page are links to a Web site devoted to prisoners' inventions, the Alcatraz Web site and the text of Martin Luther King's Letter from the Birmingham Jail.
If you are annoyed by the About.com frame around each Web site you visit, simply click Turn Off This Top Frame at the top of each page.
http://websearch.about.com/od/dailywebsearchtips/qt/dnt0606.htm
SPENDING MILLIONS TO SAVE BILLIONS: THE CAMPAIGN OF THE SUPER WEALTHY TO KILL THE ESTATE TAX
Released in April as a joint project between the nonprofit groups Public Citizen and United for a Fair Economy, this report identifies the 18 wealthy families who have been involved in the effort to repeal the federal estate tax. These families provided the funding for groups that have launched ads, spent their companies' resources and lobbied to influence Congress. Many of the names are familiar, including Gallo, Mars, Nordstrom and Walton.
A measure to permanently repeal the estate tax failed in the U.S. Senate on June 8, but the movement will no doubt continue.
Read the article about the issue at:
http://www.faireconomy.org/press/2006/pc_and_ufe_expose_campaign.html
and then click on
http://www.faireconomy.org/reports/2006/EstateTaxFinal.pdf
to read the full report.
Pages 12 and 13 of the report feature a table listing the individuals and families involved, their cities and states of residence, their family-owned companies and their approximate net worth (from Forbes) and estate taxes (at post 2010 rates, when the rates return to where they were before the recent cuts: 55 percent, with an exemption for estates under $1 million).
Pam Patton
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