Quote Originally Posted by cigar no baka
Amanda, I think the rich should pay a fair share of thei INCOME in income tax, but I have to state that the inheritance tax is absolutely ridiculous.

All my life my grandmother and grandfather built themselves up with only one of them having finished high school. They paid taxes on all they earned, raised three kids, had several successful businesses, saved every penny they could, invested it, and paid capital gains taxes on their investment revenue. Their parents were farmers who had minimal education and hardly a pot to piss in.

And when my grandparents die, they CONFISCATED a large amount of the money that was going to the family. How is that right, they paid income taxes, sales taxes and capital gains taxes all their lives, it is double taxation, totally unfair, unjust and indefensible.
I totally agree Cigar NO Baka. The inheritance tax is absolutely ridiculous. For me, the only reason I want to succeed is so that my family can have the things that I never did. So they won't have to work in shitty factories for minimum wage, and so they won't have a care in the world. Implimenting an inheritence tax certainly disheartens me, because knowing I can go out right now and work my fingers to the bone day and night so my family won't have to, but then when I die, the government can come in and take a huge chunck of it is bullshit. It's down right communist is what it is. Pisses me off, liberals on Capitol Hill bitching about how the wealth needs to be spread, well heres an idea....get the lazy bums that support you off their asses and have them work for something instead of wanting a free lunch! 90% of my political views have been formed because of the community I'm from. The county has the highest unemployment rate in the state. Not because there aren't any jobs around, but just because people are deadbeats and would rather get a check from the government. I've seen my dad wake up at 4am almost every morning since first grade, and not come home until well after 8pm. Slaving away at his job, he's a pipefitter(he's a union democrat, but hates liberals). My parents struggle to make ends meet, but we get by the best we can, but the asses down the street that don't even have a job and collect wellfare drive nicer cars than us, have a nicer house, their kids get all of their insurance paid for by the tax payers, their kids don't pay for college, etc, etc, etc. I don't understand why Republicans get such a bad rap for screwing over the working man, when liberals are just as bad, if not worse. Now I myself am off to work to help pay for all these deadbeats around here. Be back later.
-Mike