re: #733 Obdicut

But that’s not an argument against the estate tax, just an argument against the estate tax in particular cases— family farms. And if the goal is to preserve the family farm, should we prevent the inheritors from selling the farm?

re: #728 Aceofwhat?

I can find no good moral or ethical grounds for that circle, though. And again, the privacy argument really doesn’t work for me, because wills are not private, nor could they function if they were private.

Come on. A will is a public record of a very private transaction. Don’t conflate the recording of a deed with our discussion of the deed itself. The recording of the deed to my house is not private, nor could our real estate market function if it could. Guess what, though, without a warrant the state can fuck off if it tries to walk through my door.

You can find no good moral or ethical ground for saying that some affairs that remain self-contained within a very tight family nucleus ought not be interfered with by the state? I don’t need the state’s permission every time i do something nice for my wife just because we live in a house with a publicly recorded deed. Why does the state get to bust in the door because a family transfer is recorded on a public document?

(this is the sound of me winning. surely you can do better.)