Speculator: death and taxes

Theology is all about death: how to console both those who are about to die and the survivors who mourn their passing in the full knowledge that death will in turn seek them out as inevitably as the IRS. But there is something differently theological about the manner in which some people in Congress obsess about the so-called death tax. The IRS’ post-mortem attentions to the oblivious deceased have attained the thermo-nuclear heat of eternal hellfire in the fevered imaginings of some congressmen