I ain’t raising your taxes one single dime! You need to get your mind right.
“It’s financial fertilizer, and if it helps keep the government afloat it’s OK with me.”
It’s been a while since I have seen such a ridiculous statement on FR.
“You folks crusading against the estate tax in particular would prefer to raise all my other taxes instead, and I am opposed.”
Do you know what the money that you are being taxed for is being spent on?? I do! I have seen the gross incompetence and abuse of funds that we are taxed on first hand. It is abused at an exponential rate!
You should spend some of your energies going after the morons that waste your money not the “crusaders” that they are taking it from.
The money that you pay in taxes ~ ALL THE VARIOUS TAXES ~ is being wasted at a rate that should make your head spin.
““It’s financial fertilizer, and if it helps keep the government afloat it’s OK with me.”
“It’s been a while since I have seen such a ridiculous statement on FR.”
It’s not nearly as ridiculous as trying to convince me that I will need money more once I die rather than now when I am alive.
The estate tax is a tax, and as such it is going to hurt someone. However, contrary to the rhetoric of the “anti-death-tax” zealots, the estate tax appears to me to be the least harmful of the major taxes we currently are harmed by (income, sales, property, estate ). It’s also obvious that if you lower one of these taxes to zero, the remainder will rise!