[Fiddlerdave]

Republicans want death tax repealed to avoid causing murder
Just when you think Republicans cannot be any more selvish or avaristic, they show even more venality!

The inheritance tax, non-existent for this one current year, will return after Jan 1, 2011 to its level of a decade ago.

Watch here as Republican Congressman Steve King says we must pass the Estate Tax repeal BEFORE the end of the year, because people will be wondering whether to continue life support on their parents!

Essentially, he says the evil Democrats, by NOT passing repeal of the inheritance tax, will be apparently FORCING the wealthy to pull the plug on mom or dad and kill them, rather than keep them alive into a year where part of their money over multi-million exemption may be taxed and thus reduce the boodle these worthless wealthy welfare children will inherit from the hard-working parent!

Dad dying Jan 1, 2011 instead of Dec. 31, 2010, could mean they only inherit maybe a measly $15 million instead of $20 million!

An unbelievable mentality of sanctioning causing a parent's death to preserve inheritance cash!

Go to minute 2:35.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/40485147#40485147

[quote=Congressman King, R-Iowa]"and I am worried about the estate tax too - there will be people on their deathbed watching at midnight wondering if they should put their loved one on life support because we didn't pass estate tax [repeal] today!"[/quote]

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Fiddlerdave', '[')quote=Congressman, King R Iowa]"and I am worried about the estate tax too - there will be people on their deathbed watching at midnight wondering if they should put their loved one on life support because we didn't pass estate tax [repeal] today!"

[Cog]

I see no legitimate reason for the government to tax estates. Taxes have already been paid on the money earned that constitute them and it simply amount to governmental grave-robbing.

[Fiddlerdave]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'I') see no legitimate reason for the government to tax estates. Taxes have already been paid on the money earned that constitute them and it simply amount to governmental grave-robbing.

[Cog]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Fiddlerdave', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', '
')
Look at this thread. My POINT was that many people, apparently yourself included, think it is hunky-dory to kill mom and dad in order to prevent the government from getting some of YOUR loot.

[Lore]

If the rich were all more like Warren Buffet, they could say here kid, here’s your one million in advance, have a nice day. The rest will be gone when I’m dead.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'E')ssentially, he says the evil Democrats, by NOT passing repeal of the inheritance tax, will be apparently FORCING the wealthy to pull the plug on mom or dad and kill them, rather than keep them alive into a year where part of their money over multi-million exemption may be taxed and thus reduce the boodle these worthless wealthy welfare children will inherit from the hard-working parent!

[careinke]

<sarcasm on>
Yes, we need to reinstate the death tax! How else are we going to finish the job of eliminating those pesky inefficient family farms and businesses. I can't wait till the big box stores and industrial Agriculture are the only game in town. Since corporations don't die, (unless they are already broke), it should give those nice folks at Conagra, ADM and Walmart a nice advantage.
<Sarcasom off>

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'I') see no legitimate reason for the government to tax estates. Taxes have already been paid on the money earned that constitute them and it simply amount to governmental grave-robbing.

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lore', 'I')f the rich were all more like Warren Buffet, they could say here kid, here’s your one million in advance, have a nice day. The rest will be gone when I’m dead.

[vtsnowedin]

I'm not a fan of raising tax rates past 33%. That is more then enough. But I think it is well past time to clean up the tax code to eliminate all these special deals the rich use to avoid taxes. The estate tax should be used to audit the deceased' taxes and make sure that all income is taxed at the appropriate rate one time and one time only before it is passed on to any one or any foundation/trust/ charity/ generation skipping trust fund or any other dodgy creation of congress. This would include contributions to political campaigns.

[Ludi]

In many cases it's easy to avoid estate taxes - the person can gift the estate to various relatives and friends over the course of many years, or sets up trusts, etc.

http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/art ... 39,00.html

People who would prefer not to live in feudal states should be in favor of estate taxes as the purpose of them is to try to avoid a wealthy gentry class. But I have noticed many of the people screaming the loudest about "freedom" in the USA seem quite happy to support a small minority of outrageously wealthy people. In fact, the more conservative people are, the more they fight to preserve the wealthy against the working class and poor.

Welcome to Neo-feudalism.

http://www.lcurve.org/LCurveVideo.htm

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'I')n many cases it's easy to avoid estate taxes - the person can gift the estate to various relatives and friends over the course of many years, or sets up trusts, etc.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'I')n many cases it's easy to avoid estate taxes - the person can gift the estate to various relatives and friends over the course of many years, or sets up trusts, etc.

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'I')n many cases it's easy to avoid estate taxes - the person can gift the estate to various relatives and friends over the course of many years, or sets up trusts, etc.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', 'S')o what percentage of the population should a group be before they are worth caring about?

[Fiddlerdave]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'I')n many cases it's easy to avoid estate taxes - the person can gift the estate to various relatives and friends over the course of many years, or sets up trusts, etc.

[Oakley]

If I were being kept alive by life support, and was in such bad shape that my loved ones were considering pulling the plug, you could bet I would be cheering them along to do so before December 31 to avoid a big chunk of estate tax being taken by the federal government.

Many people have acquired wealth by honest competition and not by government rigging the economy in their favor, and own what they have accumulated. Some stranger does not have a right to take that wealth, as much as they might covet it. One man sticks a gun in your ribs and demands your money, and that is theft. A gang sticks their guns in your ribs and demands your money and that is theft. If the gang calls themselves government it makes no matter; it is still theft, and when it is government it is even more despicable because the people demanding the money be taken don't even have the guts to do the theft themselves, but rather rely upon government agents, and even come up with a attitude of moral superiority to justify their immoral demands.

[Fiddlerdave]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Oakley', 'I')f I were being kept alive by life support, and was in such bad shape that my loved ones were considering pulling the plug, you could bet I would be cheering them along to do so before December 31 to avoid a big chunk of estate tax being taken by the federal government.

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '
')People who would prefer not to live in feudal states should be in favor of estate taxes as the purpose of them is to try to avoid a wealthy gentry class.