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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
No, I'm calling your justification socialist. Your justification is, unless I misunderstand you is:
1) The state creates and enforces property rights. Without the state there would be no property rights.
2) Because the state creates property rights, the state may claim from a person whatever property is wishes.
3) The estate tax claims a reasonable amount of property from a decedent. Because it is less than everything, an amount the state could reasonably take, it is perforce reasonable.
Step 2 is socialism, if not something more than that.
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No. My argument is this (and this is really going to be the end of it for me.
1. Government requires a certain amount of revenue to function.
2. Since it requires a given amount of revenue, it is more sensible and equitable to take a portion of that revenue from dead people with very large amounts of wealth, since that means the government can then take less from living people who need to use the money they earn to live.
3. Those who claim that the estate tax is socialism and unjust are ignoring the fact that it has been around for as long as property rights, or they are dissembling because to argue socialism isounds better than saying "we're rich, fuck you."
4. All I'm doing is calling bullshit on the people who say that the estate tax is socialism. That, and saying to them as well "fuck me, buddy? Fuck you."
