"These measures will, of course, be different in different countries... 3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
Looks as though you've bought in to that but , thank God, many have not yet!"
So now I'm a communist. Of course, we are talking about TAXING inheritance, not ABOLISHING it.
Last time I looked, the income TAX did not ABOLISH income.
It's just the Mafia, oops, I mean government, gets a cut every time money changes hands. As long as this is reality for all of us, I don't see why someone should get a by.
Do you work for a living? Small biz or large? Do you like your fruit? How about your car? And, how about your washing machine and dryer? SMALL BUSINESSES put blood sweat and tears into bringing you those things....so you think THEY should PAY TAXES AGAIN for that privilege? The truly rich, i.e. Gates, et al....pay big money (cause they have lotsa money) to PROTECT themselves from estate taxes....the rest don't have all that to spend protecting themselves....they're too busy trying to dream up, make, deliver, or fix a product.
Watch the vote November 7th in Washington, the State. There's a vote on the Washington State DEATH TAX. This state is BLUE....see how IT votes.