well are your for it or against it?

I am against it.

I'm for it to an extent. Only for very large amounts of money.

Yes I am for it.

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After a certain level (to support children whose parents die) I am very much for it. After all, the dead are the only tax payers who aren't inconvenienced by tax. It's better that other forms of tax, for that reason.

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... I am surprised at your insolence in writing to me at all. You know, as I know, that I bought this constituency... may God's curse light upon you and may it make your women as open and as free to the excise officers as your wives and daughters have always been to me while I have represented your scoundrel corporation.
I have the honour to be... your obliged humble servant, Anthony Henley
- MPs reply to constituent, mid 1700s

I'm against it. The guy might be dead, but it is still money that he earned. He should be able to give it to whoever he likes. The government will only squander it anyways.

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Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds. I am not a sacrifice on their altars. ... I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask no one to live for me, nor do I live for others. I covet no mans soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.

Ayn Rand, Anthem.

I won't stand for it :-)

There are easy ways around it.

Fuck the govt.

They tax me all my life, it is far beyond their right to tax my DEATH.

Fuck the govt.

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You cannot control your emotions and be self-seeking and ambitious at the same time.

Against it. It only effects the almost rich. The poor and middle class aren't effected by it. The very rich (the Hiltons, the Gates, the Kennedies and the Waltons) aren't effected--as they have ways around it

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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
— Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

Using that same logic, whoever gets the money DIDN'T earn it. They aren't taxing the source, but rather the recipient.

It's like when you hit the lottery. A LOT of that is sucked out in tax, but you rarely hear widespread complaining about it.

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Not a day goes by that I don't see something that reinforces my belief that people are idiots.

Exactly. Which is why I support it. If people inherit enough, they can sit on their rich asses their whole life while contributing absolutely nothing to society. See Paris Hilton.

Yeah, but don't parents work to provide for their families? If they give it to their kids, that is what they are doing. Even if they give it to someone else, it is still their property. It would be like leaving someone a bike that they had.
To me anyways. Plus, as Thane said, Fuck the government.

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Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds. I am not a sacrifice on their altars. ... I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask no one to live for me, nor do I live for others. I covet no mans soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.

Ayn Rand, Anthem.