[Badger]

For those in favor of the high or 100% estate taxes:

Why should the government have any right to take the money someone has amassed throughout their lives? Should they not be able to do with it what they want when they die? Sure society might be better off if they were forced to donate it to charitable causes or use it for government spending.

Couldn't you say that me blowing $100 at a bar could be better spent elsewhere, so might as well not let me do with it what I want?