Recent story on estate plans was intriguing

To the editor:

I enjoyed reading the article on estate planning and the death-tax laws at a recently held seminar. I couldn't help wondering what politician came up with the brilliant idea to tax death. I wonder what his estate was worth at the time of his death and if he had the proper estate planning to avoid this tax or at least minimize it.

I have notified our attorney to scrap our estate planning and not to worry about the different trusts he has explained to my wife and me. We'll just plan to assume room temperature in 2010, and to hell with the tax man.

WAYNE UNTERREINER

Cape Girardeau