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Originally Posted by alexamenos
as for me, the inheritance tax is one i can most easily live with -- taxing the wealth of a dead man is imminently more reasonable than taxing the income of a working man.
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Point taken, but at the same time this tax is in effect a tax on the inheriter, since the dead man is dead. It's a net decrease in the amount of money left to the survivors (spouse, children, etc), which in a sense is a punishment to the dead man for dieing.
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