How about this one? The Left believes that the State should be able to confiscate through estate taxes the accumulated assets of Americans who have worked hard, saved their earnings and paid taxes on those earnings. The Left feels those assets belong to everyone to be distributed accordingly when those that have those assets simply wish to pass those assets along to their children. I find that to be an "extreme" position.
Taxes are the price we pay to live in a civilized society.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Feel free to live elsewhere if you aren't prepared to pay the price of admission to live in America.
That person has PAID taxes their entire working life, Derideo! What we're talking about is the State seizing a large part of their accumulated savings to distribute to someone else rather than having that go to their children or family.
America became great because we had a rule of law that protected the rights of individuals against seizures of property by a "King" or by the State. Now you talk about a "price of admission to live in America"? Seriously? That the State should be able to take what they like and if you don't like that you should move to another country? Who runs things in the United States of America...the citizens...or the State?
Living in America means that you were provided with the opportunity to accumulate excessive wealth. Note that what is being taxed is excess wealth. Only wealth over the limit is subject to Estate taxes.
Furthermore there are a great number of ways in which to legally avoid paying estate taxes. If you have accumulated excessive wealth you are probably going to take full advantage of all of them. That will significantly reduce the taxes that are due.
Lastly there is the concept of taxing transactions. If you win the lottery you have to pay taxes since it is income, albeit unearned. Same thing applies to inheriting wealth from someone's estate. You didn't earn that wealth so therefore taxes are paid when it transfers to the heirs.
But it's the left who decides what is excessive and what is allowed. Obama stated that, at some point, people have made enough money. They don't apply that rule to their own, like Soros, just the people they wish to confiscate money from so they can spend it as they see fit.
The left feels justified in telling people how to live, how much money they are allowed and if they could have their way, they would limit the number of children we could have. It's liberals who dream of putting people into communes where everyone would rely on a monorail for transportation. Liberals in Great Britain are constantly bitching about under occupied homes and would love to force older couples from their families homes and put them into a smaller place. Liberals cannot stand it when some people have it better than others (except for themselves) and they deem it unfair for some to have more than others.
They see everyone's income as theirs and expect us to feel lucky that they let us keep any of it.
Estates and accumulated wealth have already been taxed, yet the left wants to take another huge share so they limit the amount a person may have when their loved ones die. You mention ways to avoid paying taxes and recommend it, though what is the point of the law when loopholes are built into it? Most liberal politicians are lawyers, so of course they make laws that they would know how to get around.
People often save money just to leave to their children. It's common for parents to want their children to be better off than they were. Only a slime ball liberal would get in the middle of that and take more money for the state to waste.
People don't earn welfare either, yet we give more and more as if it's owed to people. Has a liberal ever considered billing people for the benefits they received once they are back on their feet or is it just a gift? How about we make people pay a tax on welfare after they get a job? Would libs go for that since people got something they didn't earn? Of course not. So, why shouldn't a parent who built a nest egg for their children, on their own, be considered unfair and something to be taxed?
I laugh when I see the liberals running from Obama. They all share the same views and it's true that while Obama is not on the ballot, his policies are. The Dems are trying to run from that and they can't since most supported those policies.
Some liberals in the media have been dissing Obama. I think they are just stumping for Dems and figure they'll help by criticizing Obama but not the libs who are campaigning. And it will work since too many simple minded people rely on the latest talking point or sound bite for their news.