While Americans Are Taxed on Death, Political Elites Get a Handout
by Brian GarstDespite being one of the more unpopular policies in America, the death tax is set to be resurrected on January 1st. How high it will ultimately rise remains to be seen. If the tax deal passes, it will return at a 35% rate and a $5 million exemption. While not good, that’s certainly better than the 55% rate and $1 million exemption we’ll see if the deal fails. Still, both rates would mean disaster for family businesses and farms.
The hard left has inexplicably decided that not pushing hard enough for excessive taxation without respiration is where they draw the line in the sand. Nancy Pelosi referred to any deal that would lesson the fleecing of Americans upon death as “a bridge too far.” Others have referred to its inclusion in the tax deal as “gratuitous.” That’s funny, given how apt the word describes the tax itself.
What are we to make of this inexplicable drive for such an unpopular policy? One explanation is that the left simply holds a profoundly distorted view of social fairness. Rather than seek equality before the law, they look to government to enforce equality of outcomes. But other forces might be at work as well.
Another possible explanation comes courtesy of a new issue brief by the American Family Business Foundation, which highlights the cozy relationship between the life insurance industry and big government. Because life insurance benefits are untaxed, even an overpriced plan can result in more money being passed on to heirs than a simple bequeathal. The life insurance industry benefits heavily from this arrangement, with an estimated $12.5 billion in revenue coming due to estate planning. Without a death tax, much of this revenue would be lost, making the $50 million per year spent on lobbying by the industry seem like a bargain.
When the death tax was phased out temporarily, the industry went to work fighting to ensure it would rise again. This is their customers money they are spending in order to promote higher taxes, which will then force those taxpayers to purchase their product if they want to fulfill the basic human desire of providing their children. Their work is now about to pay off. And this is where the left draws their line in the sand?
To add insult to injury, the very same elites who want to rob the graves of the newly departed will get a gratuity, courtesy of US taxpayers, should they die in office. Known as the death gratuity, this benefit consists of a payout equal to one year’s worth of their bloated salary to the family of a member of Congress that dies in office. So while American farmers are struggling to find a way to pay a gratuitous death tax without selling off their property, the families of the likes of Senators Kennedy and Byrd get gratuity checks of $174,000 or more. Where is Bernie Sanders to ask when enough is enough for these political elites?
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America is a caricature of Her former Self.
When I see CONgressman Anthony Weiner lecturing on the Death Tax, and how much of OUR money HE thinks THEY are ENTITLED to, I want go postal.
I wish there was an Open Thread going so I could post there, but here goes… The Taiwanese animators have released their version of the Obama-Clinton press conference. And it's hilarious.
Check it out: http://www.obamafailblog.net/2010/12/breaking-new...
Ah – the death tax. Another fine attempt to turn America into a Communist State.
Below are the 10 Commandments of the Communist Manifesto. See item #3. Sounds eerily similar to the Death Tax, doesn't it?
1. Abolition of property in land and applications of all rents of land to public purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all right of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the state.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state;
8. Equal liability of all to labor.
9. … Gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equitable distribution of the population over the country.
10. Free education for all children in public schools.
Taxation without Respiration. That line from the article is going to get used, a lot. And that just about says it all.
Taxes may be necessary for the government to operate within the confines of the Constitution. That is within the enumerated powers afforded by the Constitution. The Omnibus Pork Package is an abuse of those enumerated powers. It certainly is not the only abuse but a clear reckoning of progressive elitist will. The Death Tax is as egregious as it gets. The government siphoning of wealth is staggering and the haughty way in which it is done is no different than saying “screw you America, we will finance our parade regardless of your objections.” I am really getting pissed off, can anyone tell?
Your video was amusing.
Might as well…..call it a warm up.
The death tax just allows government to screw you one last time.
……….and as the say in soccer, bend over and spread your cheeks.
yes, lets look at the results, dead people vote, dead people ride busses, and dead people pay taxes. next thing you know, dead people will run for office, oh wait, they did already. in chicago not only do dead people vote, but reports are in, people are using the free passes for public transportation, of dead friends or relatives. this was a plan launched by blago, how well it has worked. so this country is equal opportunity. no i am waiting for a wedding ceremony of two dead people. perhaps a dead gay marraige as well?
Senate Democrats on Tuesday unveiled a broad agenda for an end-of-session sprint that, in other years, could be a whole year's worth of activity — ranging from an arms-reduction treaty with Russia to a major immigration bill to overturning the ban on gay troops.
And that's not to mention the nearly 2,000-page, $1.1 trillion massive spending bill Senate Democrats said they'll try to push through. The bill contains hundreds of pork-barrel spending projects and new rules governing everything from airport baggage to detainees at the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
"We're not through. Congress ends on Jan. 4," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat.
The omnibus spending bill is likely to get the most attention, spanning 1,924 pages and spending an average of $575.13 million per page.
Thanks SENATE DEMOCRATS, who prattle on and on about taxing the rich.
How about we confiscate all the money the rich people have, not just tax them lets steal all of it.
The top ten rich people account for just over 200 billion.
http://www.forbes.com/wealth/forbes-400
That is less than 2% of the national debt. NOT EVEN 2 DAMN PERCENT.
http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/usdebt.html
If you take all the money the top 400 have – take it ALL that's still only 7%.
And you can't take it all. Aside from being illegal and wrong these men don't just sit on piles of money like Scrroge McDuck you understand, they own companies and stock in corporations and have investments all over the world. Confiscating their wealth would ruin large sectors of the economy, putting untold millions of people out of work and plunge the world into a depression.
Now lets go back to the 11 trillion in debt rung up by the statist politicians and pissed away, this is a real debt, not some abstract number, it has to be paid. Do you know who is going to pay it?
You are.
There is no other choice. NO OTHER CHOICE!!!!
Bend over and start paying for your leftist policies and leftist stooge politicians fraud graft and abuse.
I had to have a talk with my nest mate on what she would have to do if I died next year. We were forced to discuss "which" property she would have to sell to pay the taxes so she could keep "part" of what we currently own.
I too am getting pissed p2o, after this discussion, she cried. I do not like when Progressives make her cry…..
Here's the problem with the Estate tax:
- Roughly 70% of Americans think they ARE, or WILL BE subject to the Estate Tax when they die.
- In reality, less than 1% of families and estates are ever subject to the Estate Tax.
This is actually one of those instances where the "American Dream" tends to backfire on itself. Everyone thinks they will become a multi-millionaire, when in reality, they won't.
The best case scenario may be for the current socialist house to stop the current deal from passing and for the next house to pass a bill that makes permanent the current tax rates. Send this bill to harry and the boys and dare him to not pass it. If they don't pass it then 2012 is coming, if they do pass it then dare obambi not to sign it, after all 2012 is coming.
This way we get only what we told our new representatives they were sent there for or we get the issue for 2012.
This is so beyond ridiculous I keep waiting for the camera crew to reveal themselves and Allen Funt to say "Smile, you're on candid camera"
I'd say if anyone's money is taken it should be those in congress.
The problem with the Estate Tax is there is an Estate Tax.
I am so sick and tired of the left punishing the wealthy. I am so sick and tired of the whining sissies that claim that having millions is TOO MUCH.
Screw you. If I worked hard, or even if I didn't, it's none of your god-damned business what I do with MY money!!!
So what? You have the right to become a multi-millionaire if you can, it's in the damn Constitution.
Get your grubby statist hands off of my money.
But that's not the point, the point is all this class warfare crap is just that crap.
We all are going to have to pay for this, period.
Stop the damn spending, stop compromising with the left.
My wife and I have had much the same conversation. We are of the mind that there is property we will keep regardless and some we will sell if necessary. We and our families worked for the land and fruits of that labor. We paid taxes on the money that we made both from the labor and capital gains yet that is not enough. Our government and the progressive socialist radicals want what is left because for some reason we aren't entitled to it. There is only one reason the fruits of our labor can not be ours. It belongs to the collective. Well not on my watch, not now, not ever!
Congress continues to rape America — Now onto Sports Highlights !!!!
A flat tax ends the IRS, ends class warfare, ends special tax breaks for sweetheart businesses like Government Motors which doesn't have to pay taxes for the next 20 years.
There is not another politician who pisses me off more by watching him than Weiner. Condescension is king with this asshole.
Had to have a hard conversation with the mate on which properties she would have to sell to pay the taxes after Jan 1 if I passed. Patience is a virtue they say, well…………maybe I don't care about that virtue anymore.
your right it is crap.
I can't believe how many loathsome animals could congregate in one party. If it's not pelosi, it's reid. If it's not weiner, it's grayson. If it's not schumer, it's obama. If it's not boxer, it's lee. If it's not feingold, it's lautenburg. If it's not sanders, it's menendez. If it's not murray, it gutierrez.
Shit. I could go on for a half hour with this list.
Each one is more loathsome than the next. How is that possible?
Never said you didn't have the right to become a multi-millionaire
I would like the Democrats or anybody in Congress for that matter to explain how dying is a taxable event.
What's so repulsive about this law is there is no excuse for it, Congress just does it because they can. Despicable certainly, and unconstitutional in my opinion.
Weiner is fortunate that I am not a violent man. I believe I would slap the taste out of his mouth if I were.
And as a side bonus think of all the lawyers out of work. Makes you smile just thinking about it.
The Estate Tax is a flat tax.
Weiner is a dick.
He is the epitome of the obnoxious Jew.
The one to watch who is the up an comer, following in the footsteps of Chuck Schumer. Anthony Weiner and Alan Grayson, is Debbie Wasserman-Schultz of Florida.
It is folks like them, who give Jews a bad rap. They are revolting.
Well I guess I didn't understand the point of your post. It's not good that this tax only affects a portion of the people.
You are right there my friend.
You could go on all day long.
You forgot Maxine "Muddy" Waters………
I am of the same mind. It took me 30+ years of busting my ass to get where I am, I will not have an "Anthony Weiner" tell me I have more than I deserve. They are losing steam with their movement, the 50 balls they have been juggling are becoming too much for them. They are re-grouping after their "punt" on the tax bill. Fiat governing and frantic politics being lobbed from half court will be what we see until Jan 5th.
I am having more and more difficulty remaining calm.
Mr. Garst,
You state "Still, both rates would mean disaster for family businesses and farms.". This is largely untrue. Firstly, there's an exemption for family farms which raises the threshold required (and from what i recall a democrat (*gasp*) introduced HR5475 to make the exemption unlimited..although i'm sure this would just turn into some tax shelter where the wealthy would buy large tracts of farmland to avoid taxation.). At the 1 million exemption it's estimated fewer than 120 family farms and small businesses would face the tax in 2011. Fewer than 1.6% of family farms. 120 or less.
So before you claim this to be a disaster, please check your facts, sir.
Wiener did on Fox said it's like winning the lotto i.e. it's unearned income. How out of touch can one be?
Amen
If it effects one family it's a disaster!
You're entitled to that opinion, and I certainly understand it.
I'm no millionaire either, but I earn in one of the upper tax brackets. I paid more in taxes last year than 20% of the country earned. Do I love paying taxes? Of course not. I worked hard to get my career to where it is today, but I was also extremely fortunate at times as well. I also love my country, and I realize that there are many in this country who are significantly less fortunate than I even though they may have more ambition, more intelligence or whatever, but don't have access to the same resources that I did growing up.
I also know that there are plenty of people in this country who are honest, hard-working Americans who pay their taxes and still struggle mightily to put food on the table, clothes on their kids backs and so forth.
Call me a "statist", or a hippie or whatever else you want, but I don't think the idea or those with more helping those with less is a bad thing. Some people might even call it a "community".
If people that have wish to help that's good, if government forces them it's socialism and in socialism the only winner is government!
How is it still YOUR money? You are dead!
Please, this is just part of the never ending effort of the rich to hold onto power….even from the grave.
If you you give your children a gift over a certain amount while you are alive, there's a tax.
Why should that changed just because you died? Now, since you are dead, you can bilk the government? What, you deserve to poke the working class with a stick one last time (for old time's sake) before you head to hell?
Please. Shut up and pay your taxes.
And, why are you all complaining? Not ONE of you will be affected by this.
No. That's hyperbole.
I still don't get you, you support the estate tax, is that your point?
How do you like the fact that nearly 50% of the people pay nothing, or even worse get refunds while paying no taxes at all. And their vote counts exactly the same as yours. That is, they vote for the politician who promises to tax the rich (you) and give them the loot. That my friend is theft.
Did you see my post right above yours?
This is what the progressive radical socialists should fear while bringing them to a cold sweat. We the People running for office and taking our government back. Local, state and federal offices filled with good honest people willing to make hard decisions using our Constitution as it was meant. Bill the pharmacist, Betty the baker, Phil the farmer, Fred the doctor, Lu Anne the teacher, et al. It is what the founders intended, it is what makes the country great, and it is those people who will serve and return to the laws they make with the friends, neighbors, and families who can be proud of that service.
Funny you bring her up, the wife and I were just discussing her. She was constantly on Fox spewing her vitriolic rhetoric up until this summer. She's young and semi-attractive, which is a rarity in the Dem party, but people listen to her………..a dangerous combination.
The last time I got violent was many years ago, although if I walked into a bar and Weiner was sitting there………?
Got to do what my Grandfather did before he died. He gifted his estate to his heirs. No Taxes (yet) on gifts.
No Steve, you are wrong. Its not just the rich (which wtf is it your business what they do with their money), but farmers, small business owners, and just plain folks. The Government was not founded to steal anybodies money. And taxes, FU, they take to much of it now to give away to losers and foreign countries.
"Now, since you are dead, you can bilk the government?" You have that backwards! It's so the government can screw you one last time!
Cowboy you have no idea what a caricature we really have become.
I have watched revisionists change our history right before my eyes. But the truly unforgivable thing is that they teach this horse s%#t to my great grandkids. And now what I taught them is a lie. Because it is in their history book.
Thanks, sir. I am just so steamed over this class-warfare tripe! I remember a time when it was a GOAL to become wealthy. No just "making it." They have dumbed us down in schools and dumbed us down economically as well.
looks like the 111th looters brigade lead by pelosi and reid have not learned a thing from the nov election..like looters swarming and overturned money truck on the freeway before cops arrive, the lame duck congress continues to pack important bills with parting gifts to most likely help in their unemployment days???personally they should be punished for their self-centered arrogance. when voted out of office they should leave immediately not allowed to stay and do damage as a lame duck congress,similar to squaters evicted from homes,allowed to destroy walls etc. a good movie to watch during this season"a christmas story"has a scene where the neighbors dogs run off with christmas dinner,similar to democrats spending away your childrens future..they should stall passing all legislation laden with pork,separate out and pass only necessary bills on a stand alone basis. WISHING YOU ALL A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A BETTER NEW YEAR..
Enough is enough. Quit feeding the beast. Just dont pay taxes anymore.
I do support the Estate Tax.
The 50% argument is a specious one at best in my opinion. While it is true that between 40 – 50% of Americans pay no Federal Income Tax, or get all they paid back at the end of the year, it is not true that those folks pay nothing. Everyone pays for SSDI and Medicare, as well as any state income tax to which you may be subject. Additionally, when you factor in federal taxes on things like gasoline, alcohol and other items, those folks actually end up paying at least as much of their gross income (percentage wise) towards federal taxes and I do.
It's not the death that is being taxed. It's the transfer of wealth. As to the unearned income, he probably didn't speak clearly….he probably mean to say unrealized gains. What happens is basically this:
Let's say you put a mil in equities. Over 20 years, that mil is now 10 mil (for example). If you were to sell that you would face taxes on a capital gain of 9 million. If you die instead, your heirs inherit a stepped up cost basis. This means if they were to sell it a year later at exactly the same prices (it was 10 million dollars) they would pay 0 in taxes. This is because of the nature of what's called "step up in basis at death"
Hopefully this makes sense.
BTW loser-It IS my money. Ive earned it, not some worthless Gubmint bureau rat. My money should go to where I DECIDE IT SHOULD GO. And one last thing, fool-Not one of us will be affected by this-do you know what even constitutes an asset that can be taxed? Id bet you dont.
whiner weiner needs a little of this:
http://tinyurl.com/2ebzmfy
Yup!
I appreciate the argument, but I don't think it holds true in the real world.
In reality, people are greedy, and that greed sometimes has a detrimental effect on society as a whole.
The HCR debate is a good example. In theory, I have NO problem with letting the market set the rates, and letting competition keep rates reasonable and the market healthy.
The problem is that for 40 years we did that and it was a disaster. The health insurance companies, who are run by human beings, not some nebulous corporate entity, used every advantage, loophole and technicality they could to maximize profits while minimizing payouts. They colluded with each other to keep prices artificially high and to consistently drop the standards for care to the customer. The result was that American citizens are paying 2-3 times as much of the income towards health-care, and we don't even get the best health-care outcomes for our money.
Actually, cheese-they DONT punish the wealthy. Funny how Sore Ass and Buffett were billionaires 20 yrs ago and remain so today. Thats because they money is in TRUST FUNDS. Buffett , for example, has WHINED that "people like him"(how many of those are around?) dont "pay enough"-whats stopping Mr Buffett from paying more? Not a thing-like all lefties, they want YOUR $ to be confiscated, not theres.
Please Stewart, like you have $5M bucks you are leaving anyone.
And your money can go to whom or where you decide. But, like many fiduciary transactions; you pay a tax.
If you gave your kid $5M tomorrow. There would be an associated tax. Why should that change just because you mercifully pass away?
There are no Capitalist or Socialist economies any more. The US, just like China, is a mixed economy and has been for generations.
Those paying no tax have no stake in the system, in fact they benefit from policies of class warfare and 'taxing the rich' meaning 'anyone who works'. This is the fact.
You say they pay ssdi and medicare and state tax and such fine, but so does everyone, so what?
And you support the estate tax which is double taxation.
Look at my post above and look at the graphic of the national dept, friend that leviathan is there because of out of control spending – and you sound more than willing to just keep going down this road to total disaster, I am not.
If they took too much of it now, we wouldn't have this horrible deficit issue the rich are profiting off of…..AND we wouldn't have so many rich folks.
Please.
Yes there are. Gifts over $10,000 are taxed as income. Difficult to pass on a 500-acre family farm $10,000 at a time.
Mixed? What the hell is that? Is that like being a little bit pregnant, or a little bit dead?
We are a socialist economy, clearly.
And broke like all of them.
That might be true now-what about 5 yrs from now? 10? 25?. The original "death tax" exemption was 650K-doesnt take that much to get you there. Whats to stop some future Congress from lowering the exemption-after all, now its 5 Mill-Libscum dems want it to be 1 Mill-thats what they are holding out for. Maybe today you are correct-that means nothing next time some pol gets an itch to rip off more tax $ for there next ponzi scheme.
Too damned true. As long as you're in "their" club your money is safe.
"They colluded with each other to keep prices artificially high and to consistently drop the standards for care to the customer."
You are a drone, you see nothing of government interference in the free market in this situation?
Agreed. The estate tax is a backward slap in the face to the American people. There at least have to be exceptions for businesses and farms, because otherwise, there won't be any left.
I suspect that big insurance, as the article suggests, is behind much of the agitation over the estate tax, and that big agriculture is in line there somewhere too…there are farms to be bought up! Again, while I agree that the Democrats are very, very tone-deaf on this issue (like many others), the true impetus behind the tax is corporate America.
It's a shame we don't agree that government ought to be in place to protect the American people that authorize and empower it from the abuses of amoral corporate entities that often pay less in taxes than the typical wage earner.
Mad at the wrong people.
Be careful Cowboy you might make people think you're prone to stereotyping. I know you'd hate it if I suggested that the behavior of not very bright folks like yourself are the reason people look down on rural whites.
You could say the same for any tax with a quoted rate. I think you know what I am referring to. Just being contrarian?
Your money? Congrats on being one of the handful who actually are effected by the estate tax.
The reason for the high costs in Health care is due to government intervention and not allowing for the free markets to act freely.
I do see the federal government stepping in and I support it.
The facts support my assertion by the way. No country has seen an increase in health-care costs as a percentage of income like we have in the past four decades.
IF you think Capitalism means that I can keep charging you more and more while giving you less and less and there isn't anything you can do about it, you're entitled to that opinion.
No it isn't. We have both Capitalist and Socialist mechanisms in our country.
I don't understand why that is a controversial statement.
Almost all economies are Socialist! Thus the reason for so many bad economies.
Mediocre wordplay.
If that is the best you have to throw, you ought take a sabbatical.
Come back when you are better armed.
So the Federal government told United Health Care to only spend 40% of every dollar they receive in premiums to actual health-care?
If government intervention is what causes costs to go up, then why do countries with single-payor pay 40-60% less for their health-care?
What was it that happened about 40 years ago, and here's a hint think Teddy Kennedy.
Capitalism means the free market, exactly the opposite of what you pretend it means.
You are a drone, let me know when you start thinking for yourself.
Wasn't "no taxation without representation" one of the slogans that led to the first Tea Party in Boston harbor and eventually the American revolution? Maybe there's a lesson here for all Americans.
They get 40-60% less care. How many people go to Canada or the UK for Health care?
HAve you considered that the reason many people pay little or no Federal income tax is because the wage-gap has reached a point where 40-50% of the population are now "working poor" while the top 10% of earners (you know those folks who are supposed to create jobs) have seen their average income increase 70% in the last 20 years?
I'm not trying to blame anyone, but we have to look at reality. If you want to live in a country where 2% of people control 99% of the wealth that's fine. But it's not a democracy, or even a republic, it's a plutocracy. And if making sure that everyone has a vote, regardless of their income and/or the amount of taxes they paid is the only way we currently have to level the playing field than I certainly wouldn't want to change that.
Are you saying that rich people should have more than one vote? Should the size of your bank account be directly proportional to your voice in government?
Ok. The Left has won we will be more like Europe, or more like France. Ya were all Frenchmen now ! Fer an ja… Got carried away for a minute. So let's start acting like them, we kneed some wood a peace of steel and a little rope. We will make our own La-Guillotine. Now lets Catch the basterds that are called politicians and give them the ROYAL TREATMENT….
Categorically untrue. Both of those countries have better health outcomes than we do. The have longer life expectancies, lower maternal mortality rates and lower incidents of heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
True that, but my grandpa was a smart sucker. ;0) He loved the Johnny Cash song "One Piece at a time". He gifted it over time (3years), and always $2 below the tax limit, or gave two gifts to my mom and dad (who would both use it). There is always a way to stop a thief. ;0)
Prove it.
I know what Capitalism means, thanks.
And keep your name-calling to yourself. Either add something to the conversation or don't, but behave like an adult.
HuffPo don't pay me enough for healthy vitriol I'm waiting on Soros to bankroll that.
These guys a like crackheads. They will keep spending and spending until it either kills them politically, or kills the country literally. They MUST be stopped and they MUST be held accountable.
Well now I can't believe my eyes. Sarcasm or brief hint of honesty? Hmmm, arti, I admit, I am wondering.
In the UK reports of people having to drink the water from plants. In Canada the one in charge came here for breast cancer. You need to check how those figures were done as a lot of the things we count in our country they don't thus the reason for the numbers to come out a$$ backwards.
Life Expectancy
UK – 79.92 years
Canada – 81.29 years
US – 78.24 years
Infant Mortality
US – 6.14 deaths/1000 births
UK – 4.69
Canada – 4.99
(source for the above: CIA World Factbook)
Here's a link to maternal mortality rates (not sure why Canada is not listed): http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_mat_mor-hea...
EDIT: for spelling
C'mon slobis. The top 2% don't control 99%. I think the latest numbers I saw was the top 1% control 43% and the top 20% control 93%. Let's keep numbers real if we can please.
But yes…the gini coefficient in our country has only gone to hell.
As a rural semi-white, who is used to looking down my nose at condescending, self absorbed, pseudo intellectuals, I must say that is your type, ( "not very bright folks like yourself" ), who use the words don't, and doesn't, inappropriately that cause uneducated folks like me to look down on you.
FeChef – I wasn't intending to suggest that those numbers were current, forgive me if it came across that way. I was making a ham-handed slippery-slope argument.
The death tax is double taxation on the same money. How is that constitutional? Those that earned this money were already taxed. And then, on the money that they were "allowed" to keep, they are then AGAIN taxed just because they die?
"In the UK reports of people having to drink the water from plants."
I'm not sure I understand what this means?
No worries…just trying to keep things honest:)
Remember the old adage, "first they came for…." that ends with "then they came for me"? It is NOT the government's money. IT HAS ALREADY BEEN TAXED WHEN IT WAS EARNED!!!! Why does the government (and those like you) believe that it is just and moral to AGAIN TAX the SAME money just because the earner has died? The person that earned the money has the right to do with whatever they like. If they pissed it away on a car, vacation, or booze, it is not your business (and wouldn't have been taxed other than sales tax), but because they are prudent and save so that they can leave something for their families, then it is taxable?!!!! (once again – DOUBLE TAXATION) Give me a break.
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