Coming back to reality, in the United States, on planet Earth, the exemption from federal estate taxes is: $5,340,000 for estates of persons dying in 2014...Why? Because middle class white people die with assets that the government can tax heavily....
Nominally, you have a point.Thing is, the “Estate Tax” on Social Security and Medicare benefits is 100% . . .
I was interested in the geographical distribution of high death rates. If I read it right, the high rates are concentrated in areas of high Democrat concentration. Socialism kills.
Most financial planners I read consider SS an annuity. It stops on death. This is not a tax by any stretch of the imagination.
Now, the SS they collect from you every year that you work is a tax. But that is not what you are talking about here.