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Originally Posted by chrissy2231
figure out a way to spend it all. And if you can't, be sure everything is in a trust or Uncle Sam will rob your inheritors.
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Another post about thwarting the estate tax. Please refer to my post at 211. Estate tax gets a bad rap in layman's terms, Actually, 90% of all people are never affected by estate tax because it applies ONLY to very large estates. Many people only WISH that they had enough wealth to be affected by it.
Taxes get a bad rap as does LARGE State and Federal government. Without taxes, there would be no interstate highways to drive on. Without taxes, the US would NOT have a large and effective military, which keeps Russian and Chinese soldiers from kicking people out of their homes and into concentration camps. So, be careful what you wish for when you want lower taxes because we are all too old to learn a new language like Russian or Chinese.
So, in thinking about what happens when you are deceased, I would recommend not focusing on how one feels about big government's worth and efficiency, but on the efficiency of the US military, which gave America GREAT wealth and prosperity after WW2. We owe the ones that died too early that much.