[A CA Guy]

Estate taxes have been in place for a long time. I have no problem with personal responsibility, so as long as they direct the current estate tax to repayment of the national debt, that's fine with me.

How else were you going to suggest we pay off this national debt instead of leaving your responsibility to others?
Do you suggest a one time assessment of thousands of dollars or what?

You wouldn't create a bill at a restaurant and run away without paying, it is no different here.

Once the national debt is payed, stop the tax and also have limits on spending so they stop deficits.

Lots of work, but I do believe the bottom line is self reliance and responsibility.
I do not think the dead should leave the world with their national debt unpaid to be left to others.
This seems a somewhat painless way to continue what is and to get some pay-down.

I look so forward to what you instead suggest, because budget controls and other things have yet to ever be manifested and seem an unrealistic dream at this point. Plus we are at war.

For our actual and financial future we should be self reliant and responsible.
We do not have a right to cut and run on our national debt IMO, even by death if we left an estate.

Private citizens all owe this public debt despite how desperate people want to argue for free stuff from their parents.

[Myrddin]

How else were you going to suggest we pay off this national debt instead of leaving your responsibility to others? Do you suggest a one time assessment of thousands of dollars or what?

Why not stop ALL social entitlement programs spending until the debt is repaid. Spend only money authorized by the Constitution for the defense of the country from foreign aggressors. There is no need to steal money and redistribute it to those who have not earned it. Correct the wrong headed legislation that started the socialist behavior in the beginning.