The estate tax is a stupid argument. The tax has been higher and there is precedent for it, governments are free to tinker with it. My problem is with corporate and income taxes generally. What happens after someone dies who earned millions of dollars or more in life is not my concern. If the government believes that It can tax people after their death than so be it. My concern is with earning wealth and spending money as you see fit in life, not creating dynasties and controlling money after you are dead.

Death tax is one of the many red herrings in politics that most people, except the wealthiest of the wealthy who have never heard of trusts and giving to others, need not worry themselves about.

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Lately you seem to be only concerned with yourself.

I realize people are going to devote the majority of their time to causes that affect them directly but you seem to take it to an entierly new level.

Such base and vapid ethics

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Who else is there? I'm all for protecting the wealthiest of the wealthy from the death tax if it keeps them donating cash to the G.O.P.
I just personally don't care about their issue. Why should I? This whole web of "I care about this issue, this issue, this issue" is such a joke. Find your core, vote on your core and let anybody with a good idea try their core issue as long as it isn't too stupid. If you are running for representative elected office then I understand that you need to get the support of constituencies, but we are arguing on the internet and benefit in no way from having our own planks on ideas that we all must realize that we poorly understand. Leave the strong feelings for people who have strong feelings.

Vapid and base ethics. I don't believe in political ethics, just regular ethics and regular ethics don't demand that I care about what wealthy people do with their money after they are dead. Take it from them, give it to their kids, smoke it, blow it out of your chode.

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