From: Noam Chomsky To: Harry Chomsky Cc: Avi Chomsky Bcc: [email protected] Subject: Fwd: Marital Trust Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 18:59:28 +0000 , Diana Chomsky As usual, you ignored everything I wrote and and are pursuing your own agenda. But this letter is nevertheless very helpful. I've been asking you repeatedly to clear the air and say exactly what you want instead of evading it in one way or another, and this does come close to that. It also finally explains clearly what I did not want to believe about your refusing my request for some funds for taxes a few years ago You no doubt recall the circumstances. Unknown to me, my financial advisers had arranged to rapidly deplete my main source of support, my IRA, by distributing half of the mandatory withdrawal to family members and to use the rest for paying management fees and taxes for the entire estate. That meant that when I paid Alex's expenses, I had to withdraw over the limit, with exorbitant taxes. Same with any other funds for any family matters, and with Wellfleet payments well after I stopped using the house, again with exorbitant taxes. Of course I also needed to live, so that meant more withdrawals with exorbitant taxes. Under those conditions I requested some tax relief from the marital trust -- which, of course, was established on the understanding that it would be available to the survivor. Your reaction, to my amazement, was to refuse, even under these remarkable circumstances, by imposing absurd conditions that no one with a shred of dignity could accept, no concern of yours. Of course, no such questions ever were on even the remote horizon when I was trustee, before choosing you to replace me, or on any other occasion when I arranged for funds to go to you, either as an ample inheritance or for regular expenses. Your letter now makes your reasoning very clear. Your proposal is that you should remain in total control, evidently a matter of great importance for you. And fol