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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
What's the moral basis? Are you - as a parent - honestly suggesting that the federal government should get their mitts on your hard earned cash before your own heirs?
Isn't the concept of the "American Dream" based on the premises that one will work hard his children won't have to?
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Yes, I am, as a parent, honestly suggesting that the government should, on the off chance that my estate has a value in excess of a couple million, take a slice of that excess. That's the one thing you guys keep forgetting -- the slim chance that you will die with taxable estates, even without a slick lawyer doing any planning for you.
And the Americabn Dream is supposed to be that one worls hard so that his kids will have more chances to succeed than he did. It is most certainly not that his children shouldn't have to work hard to be successful, too.
As Andrew Carnegie said, the man who dies rich dies disgraced. But then, I suppose somebody's going to suggest that the old robber baron must have been a socialist.
