Final-Fan said:
Aeolus451 said:
Hmm I figured that if I worded it as thievery instead of taxation that I was debating it from a moral stance and that I see it as a unethical practice then you would know the answers from that. I'm fine with normal taxes because they help fund the government and they are needed but because I view a death tax as a violation of something sacred and predatory of the governement that I'm against that tax in every form and there should be no replacement of it or workaround to create a different death tax.
I view this as just an immoral tax that should be done away with and has nothing to do with "cutting taxes" in general. That's a seperate issue entirely. I don't care about a replacement. It should be done away with. It's why out of all the topics people posted about in this thread that when I saw posts about the death tax, I felt compelled to pipe in (I didn't read alot of the posts in the thread to be honest).
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So when you said "Nope" in response to
"(paraphrased proposal:) would you be in favor of abolishing the estate tax by way of replacing its revenue stream with other taxes?", I read it as
"I would not be in favor of this proposal." I think that is a very reasonable way to interpret your answer. However, I now understand your position to be
"I want the estate tax gone; revenue replacement in the form of other forms of taxes that are not any kind of inheritance tax is acceptable but not required. I would favor that proposal because it involves getting rid of the estate tax but it should not be inferred that I would not be in favor of non-revenue-neutral abolishment of the estate tax, possibly even more so." Correct?
When I saw your reference to thievery I saw it as a variation on the "taxation is theft" mantra I hear from certain people, only that yours was specific to the subject of the estate tax. Your motive was not clear to me at that time, but it is now. By the way, that was why I was especially confused that you saw the estate tax as theft but not e.g. income taxes.
Can you identify why the passing of wealth from one generation to another is more sacred than the passing of wealth from any person to another (i.e. employment, transactions, etc.)? or is it just an axiom for you that it should be completely untouched?
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It would depend on what you're talking about with "revenue replacement if I would agree with it or not. If you're talking about creating another tax for what was inherited then no, I wouldn't agree to it because it still goes against my position on this in principal.
Because it's a situation where a loved one dies and passes on their material possessions to a living loved one or heir. I consider it a sacred rite of passage and it's obviously not a normal transfer of possessions between people or a normal transaction. If I work or run a business my whole life knowing that eventually I'll die, I would like to be able to pass on what I worked for to my children or heir unmolested by the government.
