Kramodlog
Naked and living in a barrel
Come on. Try it. All the cool nations are doing it. Like Austria. You're not going to say Austria ain't cool, now are you? Austria gave us Vienna, Conchita Wurst and Hitl... Never mind.Only to a degree. The bad form of slippery slope is when you say that you will certainly slide down the slope, without giving rationale for how or why.
I am merely saying I am not comfortable with the precedent.
That 5 million is an aberration to discuss for another thread, but yeah, there is a legal frame around estate taxes. It isn't like there wouldn't be one around organs.Estate taxes aren't a flat commandeering of assets - they are a tax, and the estate gets to choose what gets liquidated to pay them, which keeps it from being an imposition on property rights. And they don't generally apply to assets transferred to your spouse, and the Federal version doesn't apply if your estate is under $5+ million dollars.
Honestly, this seems like reflexive USian cultural distrust toward guvernment more than anything else.