freedombecki
Let's go swimmin'!
The difference between a troll and a toadie is that the toadie will shill for a ridiculous amount (like 99%) of all the money. that way, when people give in to 35% higher than the government deserves (all that money had already been taxed before it was set aside for the estate's recipients), the toadies claim a 35% win of something that would have given their fellow toadies in congress nothing from people's estates.Kewl. Another Bush hating/blaming troll...
We just don't have enough of those...
It's not the government's money, what was already taxed. They already took all they could in that person's life. Why punish families inheriting the family business? The collateral of the business should be left to those who inherit it in the person's will. It's already been taxed roundly. Often when an owner die, the people running the business have to make their fair share of mistakes, just like the first owner did. They can't make any mistakes if they do not actually own the assets of the business.
The government destroys a lot of good businesses through inheritance taxes, and it doesn't run businesses well. Just look at the stress of businesses it expropriates from the private sector. Within a few weeks, nobody has a job because the business is not viable with the government cutting it up and giving it to businesses like solyndra that don't have a snowball's chance of making it because they are not competitive with similar businesses overseas.
Over time, as the government becomes owners, the need for war takes the government's eye off business and onto survival. Then over-endowed businesses with full government guarantees take the money and run someplace else, leaving the people with their debt burden.
I don't think the government should take anything away from heirs.
Fair is fair, and the government got its fair share in one way or another from taxing or exempting from tax an investment it needed at the time.
We need to take the nanny government to the shed and put nanny on a diet. Nannies do not survive in the event of colossal war takeovers in which a competitor sees people over-governed and decides to declare war on people who've never seen war nor known its fruits, or think it's some kind of a computer game and there's always a way for the good guys to win, declaring themselves the good guys, what could ever go wrong.
This government has taken on unsustainable goals and ends that have to come from a free market.
Putting government in charge of the market was an egregiously stupid thing to do and will bring the scourge of war to our front doors and do all the things to citizens only criminals would do before.