Reply #91: The Celebration of the Individual Over the Community [View All]

[DoveTurnedHawk]

I don't agree with that, at all. We already have a system that rewards hard work and individual achievement, in fact one could argue that America is the one country that most exemplifies that model.

But you don't get to take it with you when you die. If you are such a big believer in hard work and individual achievement, why should any wealthy person's children and descendents get a free pass, often living out lives of outrageous excess and decadence and dissipation, while others in the community who are at least as deserving if not more so are stuck in a cycle of poverty for generations?

The estate tax is just, and with the exemptions already in place, the children of rich people are still going to receive huge, disproportionate benefits. Taxation is not total confiscation. It is a reasonable redistribution of assets to benefit the common good and the community, rather than people whose only "merit" was the fortune of being born.

DTH