http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2006/06/skewed-priorities.html
Monday, June 05, 2006
Skewed priorities
Hank Kalet
Managing Editor
South Brunswick Post
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The basics go like this: Cut taxes for the rich — either by cutting their income taxes, the capital gains tax or the inheritance tax — and then cut benefits for the middle class and poor through changes to Medicare and Medicaid, education and other programs.
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And the moral justification for reaching into someones grave and stealing from them is?
Seriously, a person labors all their life, makes a contribution to society (otherwise people would not have given them money), and then the political komisars come along and say "no, no, you're too rich. we need it for the children!".
Of course that means that the grave robbers take it back to Washington, where if there is anything left after expensive meals, vast staffs of richly paid yessirs, and endless studies to document the "need", that might be trickled to the serfs.
No, taxes in general, and death taxes in particular, are immoral. Death taxes take money that was already taxed many times. It's one last shot at stealing before the person finally escapes.
And, like the two wolves and sheep voting on what's for dinner, counting noses doesn't make it right.
Beside depending on politicians a la Katrina is demonstrably deadly.
Reinke Faces Life 
UPDATE: 07 Jun 2006 Gary North opines on this sort of nonsense from a religious pov.
What Biblical Passage Gives Any Share of a Man’s Inheritance to the State?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north459.html
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