Posted by
jar-el on Monday, November 19, 2007 4:22:21 PM
Why does government tax people upon the receipt of estates from their deceased parents? In comparison to the other tax mechanisms, and there are many, the proceeds from estate taxes are small. There is some allowance to a certain amount, I think it is $2 million this year, which is way down from years and years ago. Anything over that amount is taxed vigorously, and family businesses and farms are often left decimated by the tax bill.
This money is basically taken out of the economy, shifted to our "wise" government to be distributed to welfare recipients, social programs, loans to turd world countries, congressional raises and benefits, unpopular military actions in deserts around the world, etc..., etc..... You get the picture, the government thinks it knows better how to spend your fathers life's work than you do.... NOT!
THE SOCIALIST AGENDA AND THE DEATH TAX
Recently, the media came out babbling about WARREN BUFFETT'S RECOMMENDATION to Congress to keep taxing estates at death. What many of the media fail to mention is that he RECOMMENDED INCREASING THE ALLOWANCE THAT IS NOT TAXED to $3.5 million, and $4 million shortly thereafter.
The liberal media would have you believe that old Warren believes in taxing the crap out of anyone who inherits anything. It's just another example of our SOCIALIST MEDIA REPORTING THE AGENDA, INSTEAD OF THE NEWS!
What, then, is the agenda? Why all this fuss over the paltry inheritance of some farmer or businessman? When considering the socialist agenda, you are better served to consider the larger view of the socialist Democrat, since that type of political hack has no consideration for the individual, individual liberties or rights. The socialist Democrat is only concerned with the cumulative mass of humanity they seek to control, and how they might accomplish that control. The socialist Democrat politician wants to believe that the populous works for the government, while the populous wants to believe the reverse. Hence, the big government agenda to incentivise the reduction of most of our society to a mass that is dependent on government, devoid of morals and worthwhile self-direction, and that is easily demagogued and manipulated.
To understand that, we must understand what the socialist Democrat thinks. In that vein, here's what I think some of your favorite socialist Democrats, like Schmucky, Stretch or Dingy, might be thinking at any given time while in your employ:
ONE MINUTE INSIDE A SOCIALIST DEMOCRATS MIND:
"Damn tax breaks, now the economy is taking off! How am I going to get re-elected? If I don't get re-elected, I don't get my free trips and "massages", damn there's a lot at stake here! With all this upsurge in the economy there are going to be more and more people getting ahead, more people off public assistance and more conservative voters! We have to do something!"
"I know, let's raise taxes, slow the economy, promote socialist, oops, err..., free public health care for low and middle wage earners and illegals. Yea, that's right we'll buy or import the votes we need! We'll keep paying unwed mothers to have children that end up on welfare. Yea, that one works very well! Pretty soon socialists will outnumber the people who have a work ethic and believe in the free market. Then we'll control the country, not the other way around."
"Wait a minute. Somebody died? Did he have much money? Left it to his son, you say, hmmm. Well, by damn, part of that needs to go to creating the socialist welfare state. We can't have people inheriting large sums of money without the state getting its cut. Those people will be putting it back into the economy and donating it to charities of their choice and crazy stuff like that. Why that would be un-democratic! It'll undermine our agenda!"
"F#*k, I wish people would just work for one of my corporate cronies, pay taxes, die, pay more taxes, and quit trying to accumulate wealth for their families, it just complicates things. Damn talk radio spilling the beans. We'll shut them down next year though, heh, heh..."
"By the way, when is my tee time? Eleven-thirty, I think. Oh goody, that gives me time to molest that page before for brunch! And then this evening, I can wire the kickback to my offshore account. Man, life is good when your a pandering elitist socialist rat!"
WHAT SOCIALISM AND ESTATE TAX REALLY DOES TO A SOCIETY
Democratic tax and spend policy, is really not redistribution of wealth, as much as it is distribution of shared misery, mediocrity and oppression. The death tax is just another tool the socialist Democrat uses to gain and retain more and more power, and it is unfortunate for the honest achievers of the U. S., because theirs is the hip pocket to which the grubby/greedy hand of the government gravitates.
I, like many others, have worked all my life to make a good home for my family, put away a little money and try to keep up with the increasing cost of a decent home in a decent neighborhood. All this while preparing to pay for the skyrocketing cost of college, out-of-sight medical bills, etc..., etc..., all on a single salary. This is not to mention the stress of always trying to do better, taking chances, moving jobs and locations for promotions, etc..., which, in all honesty, has taken years off my life. Ah, but it will all have been worth it right? Maybe not.... When I left home to do all this, I hoped someday to return home to take over the family ranch that I worked on as a child. Land that I bled and sweated into, that is a part of who I am, and that my father and mother now attempt to preserve for me. However, this seems less and less likely as the death tax stares us in the face , like the picture of Big Brother stared at Winston in "1984". Each year, more and more socialists are born and indoctrinated by the very environs that self-advancing socialism creates. Socialism festers in urban cesspools, rural small towns, in public schools and most colleges. It erodes our country and our constitution. It creeps insidiously forward with every new tax and every new government handout.
The estate tax, however, is special to the socialist, it is not just another tool in his tool box. It is the exclamation point at end of the stated doctrine of socialism, and it decimates the individualistic healthy soul of a free society. In effect estate tax says, "You never really own anything, you never really control anything, you just work for us, the government, until you die. Then we take a little more."