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Re:Note from Mark Zuckerberg by caf on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @07:51PM (#11585583)
And of course practically speaking, death is a great thing to tax, because one of the problems with taxation is that it can be distortionary - when you tax something, people tend to do less of it. That's obviously not a problem with estate taxes.
Re:Note from Mark Zuckerberg by robfig on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @10:00PM (#11586124)
Plenty other discussion about the lengths people go to avoid the estate tax, so I think it is distortionary