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Originally Posted by pan6467
To say I have a right to everything and the government should take nothing is greedy and fucked up, becauise the government HELPED HIM and after he is gone, it's his duty to repay the government to help others...... He's very conservative but even he understands this fundamental principle. We can never be so greedy as not to repay and pass down the oppurtunities we were given, or we will decay and the society that we love today will be gone tomorrow.
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What you are saying is that your father believes that the State is entitled to all of the results of his labor, and he has no right to say what happens to the assets that he worked to create or save. You are not talking about the government taking a PORTION of his estate, you are talking about the government taking ALL of it. Let me ask you this: who is going to pay for your father's funeral when he dies? Because if his funeral expenses are coming out of the windfall that his death is going to give the Government, the Government may decide that he doesn't NEED the perpetual care or that fancy headstone, they can throw his body in an oven and save themselves a few thousand dollars.
One of the VERY basic tenets of our system of government is that the government is there to serve the people, NOT that the people are there to serve the government. And with what you were talking about with the "level playing field" of everybody starting out with no assets from their parents, that's EXACTLY what you are advocating....that the wealth of an individual, built up over the lifetime of the individual through the individual's efforts, is ultimately the property of hte Government.