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Originally posted by Not Bob
Because you're getting a chunk of money that you didn't have before?
Why should I pay federal excise tax on booze? The money I pull out of my wallet to buy the fifth of Old Grandad has already been suject to the income tax.
Whether something like the estate tax is good public policy or not is one thing -- but calling it immoral is (sorry sebby -- I love you, but ...) just stoopid. It's money. (or a bond or a mansion -- whatever) Your mom wouldn't have it but for the government which created and protects property. She wouldn't have had the estate in Westchester when she kicked it but for the fact that some central authority prevented the Visigoths from burning and looting it.
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It seems like we are all trying to make rational sense out of the irrational. I can gleam very few underlying principles in our current tax systems, except that it is a negotiated way to feed the beast.
