Enslaving or robbing are just words to demonize the process of taxing people. I am no fan of taxes but I understand that taxes are a price we pay to live in a civilized society. This particular society is in the last phase of destroying itself due to entitlements and politicians of both parties who are slaves to the process of giving our money away for votes, and the only we are going to save ourselves is to starve the government back to sustainable levels. We truly only have ourselves to blame. When was the last time we elected politicians who promised to give us less, and then re-elected them when we got less? Never. The death of democracy starts when we discover that we can give ourselves money from the common treasury, and then it is a race to see who can give more in order to get elected. But none of this is about the death tax. Do you believe there should be any kind of death tax, and do you believe that without one that the wealth of a nation would slowly move into the hands of those who knew how to manage and grow it? IE the wealthy? I suppose it is necessary to take from the richest among us and for lack of a better word, recycle (some would say re-distribute)it via social programs, to the poor. I hate to say it as i would never have thought that i would think this way, but I can draw parallels to the long term (hundreds of years) flow of money in a society to the water cycle of the planet. The evaporation part is when money moves from the masses to the producers, and without rain ie death taxes and redistribution via social programs, all the money would eventually end up in the hands of just a few. That is very nice from a purest point of view, but unworkable from an economic point of view. No estate taxes is a viable political viewpoint, but not a viable long term economic viewpoint. Like i said before, i do not know what they should be or when they should kick in, but as a long term stabilizing force in an economic system the are a necessary evil.