If you were a politician...

[Indy Texas 🇺🇦🇵🇸]

No.

And furthermore, there's nothing particularly generous about leaving an inheritance to your children. You literally cannot use the money or assets once you're dead, so it's not as if you're giving anything up.

Why not give the estate to your children while you're still alive? Why not just spend it? Why not give it away?

[Indy Texas 🇺🇦🇵🇸]

I'm not in favor of taxing what often amounts to previously taxed money.

So I guess when you pay someone to mow your lawn, they shouldn't have to pay income taxes on that money, since it was already taxed when you received it from your own income or capital gains.

I have no problem with the "death tax." Isn't taxing dead people preferable to taxing those who are still alive?