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Final-Fan said:
RolStoppable said:

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. 

A death tax or inheritance tax is a little dirty and shouldn't exist. If a person earned their wealth wanted to pass it on to someone else, they should be able to without being taxed by half or even some it.