Estate taxes??
Why would anyone (not naming names or pointing fingers) try to abolish or lower the estate tax at a time when the national debt is at an all time high??
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- Because the money has already been taxed once!!!! they are double dipping. The only people opposed to it seem to be those not receiving a portion of an estate.
- because its a tax on money thats already had tax paid on it for starters.
- because its an unfair tax. taxing goods that have already been taxed is unmoral, unethical, and should be illegal. want national debt to come down? start with these prok barrel spending projects and the military spending. also foriegn aid would be nice and probably another dozen things to do away with. so in the mean time, leave my average joe american ass alone.
- For the same reason that big oil conglomerates get tax breaks like crazy while giving their retired CEO a $4M retirement package. The rich get richer...
- There shouldnt be an estate tax in the first place, it has already been taxed. If your worried about the national debt cut down on some of the stupid researchs going on... Like the one about the ant that can walk with pig hair in the place of a leg.. how stupid is that??
- Polictics, if they get some thing changed they will look good. Then turn around and get it from some where else. We still have to pay one way or another. We got out of dept. then you know who got us back in. When some one has money, they just keep spending whether therer's or not. Then we have to pay for there mistakes. Pem
- The government needs tax revenues so it can spend them. Where it gets those revenues is a matter of politics. People who are subject to estate taxes (which is only a very small percent of the population) are powerful enough to shift the tax burden to other people. The national debt is so high because the people they have shifted the burden to all live in the future....you and me in about 10 years or so.
- PEOPLE THAT INHERIT ESTATES WORTH LESS THAN $2 MILLION DO NOT HAVE TO PAY ANY TAXES ANYWAY. 99% OF THE POPULATION DOES NOT HAVE TO PAY THIS. BUT THE 'LEAVE NO MILLIONAIRE BEHIND' PARTY (REPUBLICANS) WOULD LIKE TO GIVE ANOTHER HANDOUT TO THE SUPER RICH BY CUTTING THIS TAX.
