[maxtower]

Bottom line - the government needs tax revenue to spend on whatever it thinks is important. Theft or not, fair or not, the government is going to collect.

Estate taxes are a good source of income because taking money from dead people (or the heirs who didn't earn it) is much preferable to the guy who actually earned his money the old fashioned way. I see no problem with high estate taxes if that means lower taxes from earned income.