Dislike Quote by Roy Jenkins

I have issues with inheritance tax, particularly coming from a migrant family. My dad has worked incredibly hard all his life, so it seems…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

Income and inheritance taxes imply the denial of private property, and in that are different in principle from all other taxes. The government says…

— Frank Chodorov

The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after…

— Mike Fitzpatrick

It seems to me that the least deserving recipients of wealth are inheritors. Further, there are many indications that inheritors often have trouble adjusting…

— Julian Robertson

“So we call it “the estate tax,” which sounds very adult and respectable and vaguely French Revolution. Nobody really thinks of themselves has owning…

— Andrew Heaton

Some people's money is merited and other people's is inherited.

— Ogden Nash

Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance is not…

— Ludwig von Mises

If, as is generally the case, the heirs are not equal to the demands which life makes on an entrepreneur, the inherited wealth rapidly…

— Ludwig von Mises

A tax is money levied on a persons property, business or pleasure. A taxilevies money to get to a persons property, business or pleasure.

— Robert D Dangoor

I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in . . . a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, . .…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.

— Bill Gates

I don't see why a man shouldn't pay an inheritance tax. If a Country is good enough to pay taxes to while you are…

— Will Rogers