"jak163" wrote in message
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On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:45:47 GMT, "Michael McKelvy"
wrote:

No argument from me. Government has no legitimate claim on anybody's
estate. I suspect this is one of those things that goes back to trying to
screw with the new rich as opposed to the old money families. That's
where
our first zoning laws came from, old money families not wanting to live
near
new money folks.

Estate taxes are an effort to preserve some semblance of equal
opportunity despite huge inherited fortunes. They should probably be
more like 100 percent to accomplish that purpose.

Thank you for the party line. Nice to know you have no problem with stealing
the property of those who earned it. You do know that so long as people do
not have equality of intellect, there will always be people who earn more
than others, or are you guys working on a way to make everybody equally
stupid?

The simple fact is that money left in the hands of citizens is more likely
to be of benefit to others than in the hands of government. Even if the
private citizen ****es it away it will still be fueling the economy and
investment. In the hands of government it will go to whatever bull****
government decides to spend it on, minus the transfer fees for the
paperwork.

Either people have the right to property and the ability to transfer it or
they don't. If they do, the government has no claim on it. If they don't
you have no right to anything unless the government says so.