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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (682482)5/17/2005 4:19:22 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
[Of course. And, as I pointed out, there are innumerous ways to achieve either of these.]

"Actually, I just saw the statement. You have not proposed any of the alternatives."

:) Apparently, Peter, either your memory failed, or else you simply forgot to click back one level to my post where I mentioned SEVERAL (but made no effort to claim that it was an exhaustive list... undoubtedly many, many other policy changes are possible):

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[ALL TAXES are 'immoral', by definition.]

"That is a Libertarian philosophy."

No kidding. It's true none-the-less.

"The reason Death Tax is completely immoral is because the money has already been taxed multiple times."

But EXACTLY THE SAME THING CAN BE SAID ABOUT MOST EVERY TAX! So, that is hardly a special condition affecting the Inheritance tax.

Personally, looking at taxes side-by-side, I'd have to say that the inheritance tax has a LESS HARMFUL EFFECT on capital formation then EITHER the wage tax or consumption tax.
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