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by TGJ 5817 days ago
Then you don't really believe in individual accomplishment. I've stated that the wealth that is created is taxed as it is made. Taxing wealth more after a person dies just to transfer it to the inheritor is a slap in the face to the person that created the wealth in the first place. Society has no claim on a dead mans property as the property has been paid for by the income taxes each year, sales tax of the state, property taxes, SS, and all the other little taxes out there. By taxing property/wealth after death and ignoring the taxation that already occurred on that wealth you simply support redistribution and do not support individual accomplishment. I have to repeat because you don't seem to acknowledge this.