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Originally Posted by smooth
If you believed that individual rights are your best interest, wouldn't you support a 100% inheritence tax?
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How does allowing the government to confiscate one's property promote individual rights?
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Originally Posted by smooth
What individual right do you have to your parents' property and wealth?
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We don't have a right to our parents' property. Neither does the government. But if somebody dies without any kind of will specifying who gets what, their property has to go
somewhere. There needs to be a default heir in these situations, and next of kin works fine for me. People tend to want to leave their possessions to people they love and care about, and people usually care more about friends and family members than a bunch of bureaucrats they've never met. There's also the fact that friends and family members may have some idea of what the deceased would want done with certain possessions or all of their property in general.