The estate tax law turns the government, which exists to protect individual rights, into an insatiable and monstrous looting machine. It is a shame to forcefully take away from a living family whatever was left from the fruits of their relative's lifetime of labor. It is unjust that Americans, who pay taxes over their whole lives, are made to pay them again at their death. Here the moral code of altruism comes to the surface. Altruism does not mean helping others.
Altruism means sacrificing oneself for others.
Therefore the more possessions one has, the more one should sacrifice oneself for the ones who don't. Socialism, the political implementation of altruism, which demands the sacrifice of the individual to the group, and of the best to the worst, stands always ready to come in and do the necessary sacrificing, as was fully demonstrated in the Communist and Nazi regimes. But the total amount of estate tax collected in 1998 was twenty billion dollars. In their understanding justice is an instrument for initiating the use of force, and not a means of combating it. They do not recognize the principle of individual rights, which is the base of the right to property, which declares that the rich have and equal right to their own property, just as the poor have the equal right to their own property.