DEATH TAX REFORM DIES Our friend Daniel Clifton at Americans for Tax Reform sends us this angry note about the defeat of death tax reform in the Senate today: The vote to proceed to Estate Tax Repeal failed 57-41 falling short of the 60 votes required to even CONSIDER the legislation. Many members of the Senate have talked about how they are for reform but not repeal but today’s vote showed this was just a red herring. You can not reform the estate tax if you vote against considering the legislation which is the vehicle to implement that reform. As...