The Death Tax Must Die

“No Taxation Without Respiration”.

by Rod D. Martin
September 1, 2005

Tuesday is D-Day.  The Senate votes on whether to do what the House has long since done:  end the Death Tax, the most obscene tax in America.  And we may -- just may -- have the votes to win.

Since its enactment in 1916, the Death Tax has actually cost more jobs and destroyed more small businesses and family farms than it’s raised in government revenue.  That’s no accident.  Death Tax proponents never meant their handiwork to raise real money:  the levy was, from its very beginning, intended as a means of income redistribution, “of taking from the rich to give to the poor”.  It was pure socialism from day one, a key plank of both the Socialist and Communist Party platforms, and utterly anti-family at its core.

But the joke was on the suckers who believed the left’s “fairness” drivel.  Because even if it were okay to steal from the rich, even if it were more virtuous somehow to take their life’s painstaking work and give it to the government instead of th…