The government taxes you when you earn money, taxes you when you spend it, taxes you when you invest it, and then taxes your children when you die. The federal estate tax currently kicks in at 40% on estates above $13.61 million, a threshold the Biden administration repeatedly tried to lower. Washington frames this as targeting dynastic wealth. It actually targets a lifetime of accumulated savings, already taxed multiple times over.
Property rights mean nothing if the state can confiscate your accumulated capital the moment your heart stops. Murray Rothbard put private property at the foundation of liberty for exactly this reason: ownership that evaporates at death is not ownership. It is a revocable license the state issues and reclaims at will.
Consider a family farm in Iowa worth $15 million on paper, generating $200,000 a year in real income. The heirs owe $540,000 in federal estate taxes within nine months of death. They did not get $540,000. They got a farm. So they sell it, usually to a corporate agricultural buyer, which is a funny outcome for a tax rhetorically aimed at breaking up concentrated wealth.
The capital your grandfather spent forty years building represents deferred consumption, resources he chose not to spend. Taxing that capital destroys it. This process doesn't redistribute purchasing power; it rather converts productive assets into government expenditure, removing them from capital markets where they would have funded jobs, equipment, and future production.
Calling this anything other than state-sanctioned inheritance confiscation requires genuine ideological commitment to the fiction that the state has a prior claim on what you built.
They forced me into hijab at age 6 and forced me to wear it for the next 25 years till I left. They told me my whole life I’d go to hell and burn for an eternity if a man sees my hair and lusts after me even though I was a little girl. They told me I was worth half a man my whole life; I’d inherit half, my witness in court is half, my blood money is half, I’m half-brained. They told me if I dishonour my family, my father or grandfather or uncle or any man in my family would kill me to restore the family honour with no consequences to them whatsoever. They told me my father is my male guardian and gets to decide if I get an education or a job or even a lifesaving surgery. When I got married to a Muslim man, they told me now he was my male guardian and would get to make those decisions for me. They told me if I ever give birth to my own children, he would own them forever like my dad owned me. They told me I couldn’t divorce him even if he beat me to death or married 3 other women simultaneously. They’d chase me around and arrest me if my hijab wasn’t proper enough for decades. They imprisoned my uncle in solitary confinement for having unIslamic ideas. They told me they’d imprison me if I’d had unIslamic ideas. They murdered thousands upon thousands upon thousands people like me who had unIslamic ideas. They still tell me I was never a real Muslim and am not a real exMuslim now. They still call me a whore/ slut/ jendeh/ fahisha/ majoosi/ prostitute for speaking about my own experiences. They send me death threats quite frequently. They stalk me, harass me, threaten me, insult me (and my parents) to silence me.
Do you get the picture or do you want me to go on. Because I can go on.
We are the Fearless Four. And none of us are coming back.
We stood with the Epstein survivors when it was politically toxic. We put the truth and victims first.
We paid the price. And I'd do it all over again. No regrets.
Marjorie resigned. Thomas lost his primary. Lauren lost her election. I ran for governor and came up short.
3 million files are out because we refused to shut up.
Fearless doesn’t mean invincible. Fearless means we didn’t flinch.
@mtgreenee@laurenboebert@MassieforKY
Well, I actually agree with her on this. No other incoming class has advanced the cause of socialism, Islamic fundamentalism, and - in the sad case of Illinois- incompetence like this batch of nut jobs.
Meanwhile, America sleepwalks towards its own demise.
@ShaneSchaetzel This is an idiotic post. If Catholics stayed home and allowed candidates who are antithetical to Catholic teaching to coast to victory, that’s on them and their conscious, not on Trump.
@DoxfeedCompute No surprise, vile and disgusting people will say vile and disgusting things, and I couldn’t dream up two more vile and disgusting people if I tried.
@Marathonpundit@Pontifex I expect @Pontifex will sit on his hands and do nothing. He let fellow Chicago slime @CardinalBCupich honor a baby murderer, so he’s not about to intervene in a Facebook post equating Christ to pro-abortion, Islamic fundamentalists.
Those upset with this article think the Iran war was a mistake. Trump does not. He did it because he believes stopping Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon is an “America First” necessity and that he was the only president in 47 years with the courage to do it. He’s right.
They also think Trump was manipulated by some neocon cabal which supposedly has a “stranglehold on the GOP.” Really? Name one “neocon” in the Trump administration. I’ll wait. If anything he is surrounded by the *opposite* of neocons. There was a deliberate effort to purge all “neocons” and “globalists” from his second-term team. And yet look at the record: In his first term he bombed Syria (twice) for using CW on its people, destroyed the ISIS caliphate, killed Soleimani. In his second he has bombed the Houthis, bombed Iran’s nuclear sites, bombed Boko Haram terrorists murdering Christians in Nigeria, launched a military operation to remove Nicholas Maduro, launched a military blockade of Cuba, and then launched Operation Epic Fury to end the Iranian threat once and for all. THAT is MAGA foreign policy.
No one manipulated him into doing it. It was not a cabal of neocons. It was HIM. To suggest otherwise is demonstrably false and insulting to Trump. He made this decision surrounded by many skeptics — and it was the right choice. It was in fact the most courageous foreign policy decision any president has made in my lifetime. I’ll defend that choice - and the man who made it - to my last breath.
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