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Debate Score:8
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Ended:01/01/16
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Is the current estate tax too high, or too low?

This is my first debate in a long time. I honestly did not think that I would return here, but I miss the people here too much.

A quick rundown, courtesy of a stranger from wikipedia:

The estate tax in the United States is a tax on the transfer of the estate of a deceased person. The tax applies to property that is transferred via a will or according to state laws of intestacy. Other transfers that are subject to the tax can include those made through an intestate estate or trust, or the payment of certain life insurance benefits or financial account sums to beneficiaries. The estate tax is one part of the Unified Gift and Estate Tax system in the United States. The other part of the system, the gift tax, applies to transfers of property during a person's life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_tax_in_the_United_States

Too high

Side Score: 4
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Too low

Side Score: 4
1 point

All tax is theft. If you are forced to pay taxes or be thrown in a cage(Only civil thing to do, obviously) you are not free and your hard earned cash is being stolen from you same as a robber who has you at gun point

Side: Too high
2 points

Will you let them steal it over your dead body? Hehe.

Side: Too high
Stickers(1037) Clarified
1 point

Do you consider an inheritance to be "hard-earned" cash? I would assume that you don't, and this wouldn't apply in that case, but what precisely makes taxation "theft"? Certainly in the legal sense, it isn't.

Side: Too high
JalenSmith(183) Clarified
1 point

Yes. It is hard earned. The person who passed away earned the money and it is their decision where it goes. What makes taxation theft? What part of "Pay for your masters' unjust wars or be throw in prison" did you not understand? How is taxation not theft, if it isn't.

Side: Too high
flewk(1193) Clarified
1 point

All theft is tax.

QED.

Side: Too high
1 point

So what your saying is We should pay taxes in life and in death. If our government does not see a difference in its citizens being alive or dead that tells me that to our government we are truly nothing more than a dollar amount. If this is true then we are in serious trouble.

Side: Too high
3 points

I don't think it is either. I am not sure if it is too low, but the lie that Republicans are pushing that it is too high is ridiculous.

Side: Too low
1 point

Are you talking about the rate or the limit?

If you are talking about the limit, that relates directly to the limit of the gift tax.

Side: Too low
Stickers(1037) Clarified
1 point

The rate. I was going to put the rates up, but the character limit wouldn't allow it .

Side: Too high
flewk(1193) Clarified
1 point

The rate is fine. The cap is something like 40% which is about the same as the federal income tax.

It is also easy to pay a negligible amount or avoid paying all together. Estate planning is not that hard if you are rich enough to need it.

Side: Too high