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Should the death tax be abolished?

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No
16% 36 votes Total: 219 votes
Yes
84% 183 votes
  • 1 of 3

    by David Janke

    Opposition to the estate tax (or death tax, to its opponents) is mystifying to me. Currently, the estate tax applies when an individual leaves an estate worth over $2 million an...read more

  • 2 of 3

    by Matt Castle

    Do you have an estate valued at 2 million bucks? No? Then don't worry about it. The death tax is a great attention grabber and its likely that it always will be. I hate to admit...read more

  • 3 of 3

    by Richard Ford

    There is a fundamental difference between working for money and inheriting it. Work should be encouraged and so we generally keep income tax as low as we can while still balanci...read more

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  • 1 of 12

    by Robin Coons

    We work all of our lives and pay taxes on the income we receive. The fact that some people save for the future while others spend all there income, why should the saver be penal...read more

  • 2 of 12

    by Emmanuel Osondu

    The death tax is also called the estate tax. And what exactly is this death tax? Well, as the name implies, it is a tax levied on the estate of a deported soul. In simple ...read more

  • 3 of 12

    by M. J. Joachim

    Taxing the Unemployed: Until Death Do Us Part Every day I wake up prepared to interact with a world that wants a piece of me. My children need breakfast, rides to school, a...read more

  • 4 of 12

    by Pat Lunsford

    Death tax, otherwise known as estate tax, is what the government will take away from your family when you die. It belongs to you and they have no right taking what belongs to yo...read more

  • 5 of 12

    by Jack Kemp

    Inheritance taxes are a way for governments to pick the carcass of an estate that they had previously taxed as both job earnings or capital gains over the years of their accumul...read more

  • by Peggy V

    We must eliminate the death tax. It is graverobbing. Our founding fathers certainly believed in the right of inheritance. Working hard, saving and investing all help fuel t...read more

  • 7 of 12

    by AMERICAN MAN

    ~=AFTER LIFE=~ Till death do us part with such a wonderful reality where we compartmentalize our tragic nation's tyranny of life's investments (personal family wealth) and th...read more

  • 8 of 12

    by Ethel Smith

    There are a few basic facts of life such as we are all born, will all die sooner or later and we will all pay too much tax during our lives. Years ago it was said that there was...read more

  • 9 of 12

    by Joseph Malek

    Without any doubt, any form of death tax should be abolished. You see, dead people don't do anything but decompose. Such taxes are nothing more than a legalized way for the Gove...read more

  • by Rev. R. D. Brown

    There are several good arguments for elimination of the estate tax, but the most compelling for me is the fact that it is double taxation. Every penny of that estate was taxed w...read more

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    by dlmetz

    Personally I think that all taxes should be abolished until congress finds out how to get by with less. Most of the people in Congress think all the money that is in the nation ...read more

  • by Michael Allen Carvell

    I think that this death tax is wrong to tax a family for a relative dying this is over kill in taxing people for every aspect of their life alive and dead come still more tax. I...read more

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