date:Sep 18, 2013
llars for which youd done nothing.
Money talks
At the end of the 1990s, an effort to repeal the estate tax gathered force, supported by a group of billionaire families and their lobbyists at Patton Boggs LLP, a Washington law firm. Walton Enterprises paid Patton Boggs to lobby on tax matters during that time.
A Patton Boggs lawyer, Aubrey Rothrock, said in a statement that the Waltons lobbying supported private foundation reforms to create new incentives for charitable giving and did not invo