[jghn]

Also there's the aspect of how many Americans view themselves as temporarily inconvenienced millionaires. The average person doesn't want rules like this because they're sure it'll apply to them someday.

[JAlexoid]

No... Most americans are just plain ignorant(not in a malicious way, just impossible to parse the signal through the noise on many topics).

A lot genuinely have no idea that there's a very high lower limit on inheritance tax... at the same time they hate the ultra rich.

This is genuinely a very schizophrenic country.