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Aeolus451 on 12 October 2017
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Final-Fan said:
Aeolus451 said:

It doesn't contradict my earlier statement at all. They shouldn't tax an inheritance at all. That's my position on this. 

Edit. 

To answer your question. Because it's the passing of their wealth from a dying family member to another or to a heir. It's not normal income so it shouldn't be taxed to the extent it is or at all. It's just my opinion. I consider it the same as thievery in a sense because it's not the community's money or the government's. 

On Bandorr's question:  Let me try again.  I think I see the disconnect. 
(1) What do you define as "earning"?  (2) Is it "receiving in any way, for any reason whatsoever"?  (3) If a child inherits money from a dead parent, did the child earn it?  (4) If not, does that affect whether it should be tax-free in your view if that child does nothing with the money and then dies, leaving it to their own children? 

On my question:  You completely failed to answer the question I posed.  Let me rephrase it.  Why do you think a tax collected after you DIE is more harmful than one collected in your own lifetime?  If taxes are to be collected at all, why isn't one that literally does not affect you in your entire lifetime the least harmful possible tax? 

Would you be in favor of abolishing the estate tax in a revenue neutral way—in other words, by raising taxes on other things to the same extent that the estate tax is eliminated? 

He's fixating on the kid "earning" his or her inheritance when I already explained my position but I'll answer the bolded questions for the sake of clarification. 

For (1) and (2) since my answer is similar. I consider earning to be acquiring money through any legal means. 

(3) Yes but it's not a matter of if the kid earned it or not because it's a gift of sorts from their dead parent to them. 

(4) Nope. I'm completely fine if that happened but I doubt that it would play out like that. 

I did answer your question but I didn't answer it in the way you wanted. To answer those new questions. Because I consider it immoral of the government to tax something as sacred as the parting gift of a parent to a child or heir. It doesn't matter if the person died, their choices regarding where their possessions or wealth would go should still be honored without the government trying to steal what's not theirs. If I decided to give my kid my car when I die, does that mean the government should get half of my car or any of it? No. The same thing applies to money that's meant as an inheritance. I just disagree with any sort of death tax or inheritance tax whatsoever. Normal taxes should apply when they choose to do something with what they inherited like sell it, buy something, etc. 

To the last question, nope.