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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I'm sorry but my dad moved to this country with nothing, busted his ass to amass his fortune and he paid every penny of tax he owed to the government. He was also very frugal and didn't play the "keep up with the Joneses" game which his highly prevalent in this country. Why should his money be double taxed because he was better with his money than most people?
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I'm not disagreeing or agreeing with an estate tax, but in the future...
He's dead. He's not paying any taxes. His heirs are. Why should they get untaxed money that they didn't work hard for? Your father worked hard for his money, and he should keep as much of it as he can. Thing is, you didn't work hard for it. He did. You should benefit from any hard work you do, but that doesn't mean that it's fair that you benefit because you were lucky that some event didn't happen to wipe out your dad's estate before he died.
He's gone now, and he can't take it with him.