[TorpX]

First eliminate the Depts. of Education, and Energy. They are worse that useless. Greatly reduce the EPA. Thin out the Federal bureaucrats. No grants for loony tunes, democrat front groups.

Freeze entitlements, cut entitlements for all illegal aliens entirely. States would not get anything for them. If they want to be sanctuary for illegals, they would have to do it on their own dime. Eliminate farm subsidies and corporate welfare (such as ethanol and "green energy" projects).

Bring back the troops in Europe and some of the other outposts and close the bases.

Inheriting houses, businesses, cars, etc, I can understand, but expecting to get money from someone and not pay taxes on it is unreasonable. An inheritance is just income without doing any work to earn it.

Property is property. It was all earned, or purchased with earnings. Why should one be protected and the other not? It is, in fact, the accumulated earnings of a lifetime of labor.

If the Gov't was really concerned about the morality of income going to people who do not "earn" it, there would be no welfare, corporate subsidies, foreign aid, gambling or lotteries.

I never understood the concept of an inheritance of money. I want my father to die in the process of spending his last dollar on himself. He earned it, I didn't.

I agree, since he earned it he should be able to do what he wants with it. He can donate it to charity, he can will it to you, he can spend it on himself, or he can give it to the Gov't (but who would want to do that). He earned it, the Government didn't earn it. He already paid taxes on it, so why should it be taxed again?


Furthermore, the estate tax is hostile to family businesses. People used to operate family establishments that would be passed from generation to generation. Now we have large corporations which lobby for favors and get special breaks. (After all their too big to fail, you know!) People die and get robbed by the Government, but corporations don't die and never pay the tax. It is inherently unfair.