Should Jim DeMints proposed amendment of unemployment benefits removing the estate tax have failed?
An Old Fashioned Debate on Tax Fairness
The estate tax primarily affects the ultra wealthy - they can afford it.
This character is a conservative, and we know who they serve.
If we are going to have an estate tax, it should only be on liquid assets.
Mainly cash.
It's not right to tax a person that gets transferred a family business, which they may have to sell in order to pay taxes on it.
Better thing is to tax cash, for one people will try to avoid it and keep the money moving, stimulating some sort of economic activity.
It also doesn't unfairly punish the people with illiquid assets.
The estate tax primarily affects the ultra wealthy - they can afford it.
This character is a conservative, and we know who they serve.
Whatever the details are on the matter you already do have one.
If we are going to have an estate tax, it should only be on liquid assets.
Mainly cash.
Except that creates perverse incentives. If the tax was on only liquid assets, then those who were going to die would simply buy up lots of illiquid assets leaving only the necessary amount to live on til they die. When they die, a tax on only liquid assets wouldn't touch them. Effectively they'd managed to hide large portions of otherwise liquid assets from the tax. And this would create sizable amounts of bubbles in assets with trillions of dollars in potential estates trying to buy illiquid assets. And you and I don't like bubbles.
A better way is simply raise the exemption to $10 million.
Index it to inflation and that would be fine with me.
I do not think its right to tax something that someone has already paid taxes on. Its just like these vehicle registrations and property taxes, there should one be a one time tax at the time of the purchase and thats it.
Well at least DC isn't full of the idiots on this board that voted no.
. Something the American people should be happy about.
What Americans should be unhappy about was that an amendment like this was even suggested. Just saying.
The estate tax primarily affects the ultra wealthy - they can afford it.
This character is a conservative, and we know who they serve.
Why should the government be able to tax the same thing that you already paid taxes on at the time of the sale over and over again?
Why should Americans be happy about legalized theft?
What Americans should be unhappy about is the fact the government can extort money out of you over something you already paid taxes on. I guess it takes a liberal mindset to think that it is okay to forcefully take money from others.
Well at least DC isn't full of the idiots on this board that voted no.. Something the American people should be happy about. What Americans should be unhappy about was that an amendment like this was even suggested. Just saying.
I do not think its right to tax something that someone has already paid taxes on. Its just like these vehicle registrations and property taxes, there should one be a one time tax at the time of the purchase and thats it.
Well at least DC isn't full of the idiots on this board that voted no.. Something the American people should be happy about. What Americans should be unhappy about was that an amendment like this was even suggested. Just saying.
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If we are going to have an estate tax, it should only be on liquid assets.
Mainly cash.
It's not right to tax a person that gets transferred a family business, which they may have to sell in order to pay taxes on it.
Better thing is to tax cash, for one people will try to avoid it and keep the money moving, stimulating some sort of economic activity.
It also doesn't unfairly punish the people with illiquid assets.
I just thought of something... the colonies went to war with one of the reasons being taxation without representation. Since the property belongs to a dead person wouldn't that be taxation without representation?
Are you proposing we raise a zombie army to fight the government with? :shock:
Now that would be a cook idea.
Nothing of the sort.....what gives you this ****-a-manny idea???Sounds like you have class envy.Do I??; when young, YES!!, now - NO!! It's their property and the government wasn't there when the person earned it.Maybe it should have been.. In fact, the government made it difficult for that person to earn it to begin with. Are you implying that the ultra-wealthy don't have a right to have their views represented?