Country Quote by Will Rogers

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

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

Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.

— Anonymous

The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's…

— J. D. Hayworth

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

Just dying should not be a reason for taxes.

— Todd Akin

We must end the iniquitous multi-taxing of the same money. It is not right to tax people's incomes, then their savings on that income,…

— Liam Fox

I'd like somebody to get rid of the death tax. That's what I want. I don't want to get taxed just because I died.…

— Whoopi Goldberg

Many countries, even socialist Sweden and former communist Russia, have done away with their death taxes. They found the confiscation of wealth at death…

— Stephen Moore

“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

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

The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral.

— Jon Kyl