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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Your complaint of my post is mere semantics - I could have taken the time to write 'estate' instead of 'you' on several occasions, but it changes nothing.
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It certainly changes the emotional content of the argument. You're implying it's the government taxing you once when making the money, and taxing you again when it is inherited, Instead, there are two different taxes applied at the same time to the same money, which is functionally not at all the same thing - and YOU are not actually paying the capital gains, either.
Stop saying things like "random tax grab", it's nothing of the sort, nor is it "no different than taxing savings at any other time". That's ridiculous hyperbole that makes the rest of your argument look bad by association. Again, I don't know if it's good policy or not, but I do know the argument you're making against it isn't a good one.