I'm saying the highest the estate tax burden has been recently was just a 675K exclusion (in 2001) There is no push for a 100% estate and inheritance tax as tzwien implies.

The 2012 rate is also 35% vs. 55% in 2001.

estate tax is just as bad as income tax

violent thieves don't agree, i'm shocked

When sales tax becomes 35-55% I'm sure a lot more will complain about it.

taxed when you make money, taxed when you spend money, and a man cant even die without the government trying to get their hands on his stuff.

Mostly because virtually everyone will be affected by it, including those who can hardly withstand such theft. Unlike the heirs of $5 MM estates.

That is the coolest of stories, bro, but the point isn't that the estate tax isn't cumbersome or um, unfair or something. The point is that it's not "double taxation" any more than just about all taxation is double taxation.

Those poor corpses having their money stolen.

sales/income tax are based on some sort of exchange. theres an economic transaction of wages for labor or money for goods. a guy dying is not an exchange between two parties, its just "lets take this dudes money because we can"

do you think there should be a tax when you open a new bank account and move money from your old one to it? if two people get married and combine their assets should they be taxed first?

your whole world view is "hey that guy has more than me so its fair to steal some of it"

You might want to think about all of this for more than a minute or so.

But to give you a head start, here's the first question you can ask yourself: who is being taxed?

Um, do you think the money is just buried with the rich folks?

tbf, he was sleep poasting.

lol

this also made me lol