To be played.

Sorry about phailing to reply in my allotted time. But anyway, you're completely false. "Even if my son were to receive a large sum of money, the government had nothing to do with that taxed 45%. Why should they decide to take my [possibly] hard-earned cash?." I repeat, taxes of wealth by governments are used to create a conducive environment toward positive human existence. If the government wasn't taxing and turning that revenue into results, then you would have had a much harder time accruing your wealth. No roads, no fair police force, no schools to be educated in, pretty much no nothing. And the creation of something out of nothing was done with taxes, which made you the wealthy person as you are. The Government supported you through your life, and its now time to return some wealth back to the government, if its over a certain amount. 2 Million Dollars. Once again, if you don't want to be taxed, then you should feel free to buy yourself an island and declare total sovereignty. Why should the government decide to take your possibly hard earned cash? Because they need it to create and maintain a conducive environment toward positive human existence. "If I was already paying the income tax for my salary, why should I pay even more to pass it on. What is that, a tax for dieing? ("You fail at living, so we get your cash!") Why tax one object for two different reasons?" The estate tax is not a punishment for death, just as the income tax isn't a punishment for earning money. Its a tax, and thats all. The money that one makes in life isn't always the money one makes in work. This maxim is especially true for the people who will end up with an estate worth more that two million dollars. Think stocks, bonds, think properties. One tax is on income from work, the other is on the value of your estate post mortem. "What do you think he'll spend it on? Expensive land? Beneficial insurance? These must be taxed. With an expensive house comes expensive utility bills. His money will be gone no later than when most other people's will." He can spend it on whatever he wants to spend it on, after all you willed it to him. What you're saying has no logical value, using an assumption of how he may be taxed in the future as a reason why his wealth should stay untouched for now. "Oh yeah? Watch me! You'll see! YOU'LL ALL SEE! *laughs hysterically and runs away*" You Lose. "I meant that maybe my son needs some more money for his situation, but he might not get enough because the government gets some of it." I'm sure that he can get that money for his situation by working, or as he seems to be already of higher means, using financial institutions to gain money. And wouldn't it be nice if we could all just keep all of the money that we work oh so hard for? Well it wouldn't, because humans are naturally self interested people, and then the earth would go to crap. Governments are, of varying degrees, of the people, and with that, they ensure that society if conducive to that nation's population. "What's wrong with being rich? Last time I checked, America has a capitalist economy, not a communist one. Keeping one equal class system is not our goal here." Argumentum ad Communism. I'm not saying that there can't be rich people, but there shouldn't just be as$ lazy rich people, as would be allowed if some of their accrued wealth was not taxed.