What is a political issue that you want to understand the opposite viewpoint more?

[Final-Fan]

RolStoppable said:

Final-Fan said:

Why shouldn't it be both?  In other words, using random numbers as an example, why would a 35% income tax be better than 30% now and 5% later? 

(To me, I'd think that the longer I get to hang on to my money, the better.  That's why I love the estate tax:  they don't collect it until I'm already dead.  That seems like a better deal than having to pay the same tax while I'm alive.) 

The whole thing sounds confusing. I'd view such a tax not as me getting taxed when I am dead, but rather the persons who inherit my money as the ones being taxed. Just like if I inherited money, I'd be the one who gets taxed for getting ahold of the money; it's not the dead person who gets taxed.

That is probably a more accurate description, but lots of people in the USA see it as a "death tax" and that's not an unreasonable viewpoint to me.  What I see as unreasonable is the opposition to its existence.