# riddle me this- welfare vs estates

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle-me-this-welfare-vs-estates/721506>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 3, 2015, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle-me-this-welfare-vs-estates/721506 "2015-06-03T06:42:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Snnipe\_70E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@Snnipe\_70E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snnipe_70E)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle-me-this-welfare-vs-estates/721506/21 "2015-06-04T03:24:06Z")

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Father and son work hard in the business. Father dies Son inherits business but has to pay a tax because his dad died.

Why should someone be taxed just because they died? That I do not understand.

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**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle-me-this-welfare-vs-estates/721506/22 "2015-06-04T03:29:34Z")

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> [@Snnipe\_70E](#):
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> Father and son work hard in the business. Father dies Son inherits business but has to pay a tax because his dad died.
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> Why should someone be taxed just because they died? That I do not understand.

He shouldnt. Dad should work with a lawyer and put say a third the company in his son’s name, 1/3 to wife, and dad wont owe any estate tax.

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**Author:** ![Flyer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/flyer/32/7298_2.png) [@Flyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flyer)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle-me-this-welfare-vs-estates/721506/23 "2015-06-04T03:58:46Z")

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> [@DrDeth](#):
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> But then, they all want to get rid of the estate tax, which means that _some useless wastrel who has never worked a honest day in their life can sit around all day watching TV and eat bon-bons._

Boy, you sure get a lot of exercise jumping to conclusions. Maybe the heir worked hard.

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**Author:** ![Flyer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/flyer/32/7298_2.png) [@Flyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flyer)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle-me-this-welfare-vs-estates/721506/24 "2015-06-04T04:01:19Z")

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> [@Ze\_Pr0fes0re](#):
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> Lol. The Welfare recipient is spending money he was freely given by the taxpayer. It’s just an extended family of sorts. Besides, with the modernization of industry that is coming you might as well accept and give free monies to people in the form of citizen income because there is no way you will be able to fruitfully employ everyone in a capitalist society.

Just how much of that tax money would be “freely given” if the tax laws weren’t backed by the threat of force?

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**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riddle-me-this-welfare-vs-estates/721506/25 "2015-06-04T04:23:07Z")

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> [@DrCube](#):
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> Now, there’s a lot of hypocrisy in the conservative cannon.

I think there’s hypocrisy on both sides. Conservatives may complain that the poor don’t deserve welfare but the liberals complain that the heirs don’t deserve inheritance.

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