Aside from your flawed assertion of a 'fiscal crisis' now or that a balance ever existed in the past, you make some interesting points.
I tend to agree that the wealthy get wealthier, however, the poor also get wealthier as a result.
About the money needed or used to secure additional wealth, I also agree. I do not however believe this to be a problem.
I agree that problems exists about influence and the money needed to secure it, but think this is a problem not of the wealthy or successfuls making, but instead a shortfall of our political system in general. One I do not know a better solution for. I do know, and history shows us abundantly, that wealth redistribution and collectivism, does not work, and in fact exacerbates the problem of 'poverty' [which in itself is relative].
I do not believe that we have a poverty problem in the US, that needs to be solved.
Finally, while understandable the 'ideal' that the wealthy have no problem thriving without their forfeitures of accumlated and already taxed assets upon death, it is, in my opinion, obscene, to use this reality as a justification for the tax. In other words, it doesn't matter what it does or doesn't solve....it's just the notion that this was proposed and enacted that I find shameful.
Again and as usual...I am but JAFO,
-bear
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