Based on your financial expertise, provide your response or viewpoint on the given financial question or topic. The response format is open.

Estate taxes and the top 1 percent by net worth
There are two main reasons for the difference between these two numbers: While there are a few people that are wildly wealthy, most of the people with more than 10 million have between 10-50 million dollars.  These people shield most of their estate and in the end the tax only effects a small portion of even the wealthy.