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My guess is that Republican's are more interested in protecting their assets.>>
>>And you think that Warren Buffet and Bill Gates
aren't interested in protecting theirs?
>
>As they plan to give large part of their assets away,
>I tend to believe they leave out dangerous/far fetched/discussable tax strategies.
>I am NOT saying they won't try to minimize taxes to have more to give away,
...to which I would say they are carefully measuring how much to give away in order to minimize taxes, specially if their non-profits and charities keep purchasing services etc from their principals, at list price...
>but the situation IMHO is different from people wanting their assets to survive to be inherited fully.
>
>my 0.0002€ (realizing this is guesswork)
>
>thomas