Quote Originally Posted by Hazir View Post
a. you really care more about the taxes you pay after you died than the taxes you pay while alive?
b. not all assets can be moved
c. with the universalist approach the US has US citizens can move their assets as much as they want, they can't escape the IRS (legally)
A 100% tax would be absolutely stupid.

a: More? No. Enough? Yes
b: Maybe not, but most can. Especially for anyone wealthy enough to be leaving anything worth taxing.
c: Garbage - hence why even you needed to clarify it.
Can be fixed easily by hitting excessive giving to these people with the same tax.
No, not easily.
Which would be tax-evasion with all the risks of such behaviour
As well as making your pointless law absurd.
So?
Again your foolish notion won't work.
They will have the right to spend their money as they like as long as they live.
So? Alive is not the be-all and end-all.
Human rights do not apply to death persons. ``
Not really, abusing the dead is a criminal offence I do believe, as is necrophilia etc - plenty of laws protecting the dead. Plus the point of inheritance is that it's not the dead person receiving it.