Death Tax - How can this be morally justified?
Posted by Tony Vilgiate at 4/2/2009 7:00 AM 
Categories: Political Corruption, Racism, TAXES, Economics, Political Culture
Tags: Racisim Death Tax
Categories: Political Corruption, Racism, TAXES, Economics, Political Culture
Tags: Racisim Death Tax
Currently anyone with a "value" of over 3.5million dollars at their death is subject to a 55% tax on their assets before the proceeds (i.e. your life's work) can be past to the heirs of your choosing. Not that the distinction impacts the moral argument, but this tax is not simply on 3.5million dollars in cash and securities, this is 3.5million dollars in assets period. Not one might say, well with 3.5million dollars one is by all standards wealthy and can "afford" it. Really? Is ones ability to pay the moral threshold for taxation, or thievery?
If the assets in question are a family farm or business that has been in the family long enough to have either, through inflation or appreciation, increased in value to a level that by many small business standards is moderately successful, it will have to be sold or liquidated to pay the Federal Government. Why? Because they say so. This prevents one generation passing down the production of their labor and investment en-mass to the next, and plucks small businesses, farms and enterprises from the hands of those who created them.
Using this same logic stealing from anyone who, in your accounting, can afford it is legitimized. The Federal Government, OUR EMPLOYEES NOT OUR MASTERS, is now determining how wealthy you can be and both to whom and how you will dispose of your life's work upon your demise. Whether you have the capacity, ambition or luck to ever be impacted by the burden of a 3.5million dollar net worth, by any definition the confiscation of the same is an immoral tyranny.
There is also an interesting twist on the death tax. It is massively, racially imbalanced. The majority of people that this tax impacts are of European descent. Think about that for a moment in the light of other racial challenges to policy, budget and law.
I will challenge any one in favor of a death/inheritance tax to provide the moral foundations and anchor for such a tax. How is it ethical, morally acceptable and not a grotesque violation of personal liberty and individual sovereignty?
If the assets in question are a family farm or business that has been in the family long enough to have either, through inflation or appreciation, increased in value to a level that by many small business standards is moderately successful, it will have to be sold or liquidated to pay the Federal Government. Why? Because they say so. This prevents one generation passing down the production of their labor and investment en-mass to the next, and plucks small businesses, farms and enterprises from the hands of those who created them.
Using this same logic stealing from anyone who, in your accounting, can afford it is legitimized. The Federal Government, OUR EMPLOYEES NOT OUR MASTERS, is now determining how wealthy you can be and both to whom and how you will dispose of your life's work upon your demise. Whether you have the capacity, ambition or luck to ever be impacted by the burden of a 3.5million dollar net worth, by any definition the confiscation of the same is an immoral tyranny.
There is also an interesting twist on the death tax. It is massively, racially imbalanced. The majority of people that this tax impacts are of European descent. Think about that for a moment in the light of other racial challenges to policy, budget and law.
I will challenge any one in favor of a death/inheritance tax to provide the moral foundations and anchor for such a tax. How is it ethical, morally acceptable and not a grotesque violation of personal liberty and individual sovereignty?
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