45% over 5 million is ridiculous. That said, the estate tax is perfectly legitimate and just. Estates were not appropriately taxed when aquired because there is a national debt. That means that government was spending more than it was collecting while these estates were being accumulated.

Nobody likes taxes, but you must seperate the taxing issue from the spending issue. Of course the government spends too much and on inappropriate things. However if the spending was responsible, the estate tax is a more legitimate way to fund the government than either income taxes or property taxes. Income taxes discourage productivity, and property taxes infringe personal liberty. The estate tax is a tax upon people who have not earned what is being taxed. Many huge estates are products not of spend thrifts, but of a corrupt corperatist system.

Fix spending first, then the estate tax should be 25% of estates over $20 million, and go towards the debt first.

Funny how the person who wrote "We the people..." grew hemp. Not all laws are created equal. I bet you who would take away someone's right to grow plants whould hoot and holler if the law decides to take away your guns and such.

Royalty is an assault on human equality. It's akin to slavery, only instead of one group being less than human, a group is considered more so. What happened to the violation of everyone else's rights, when royals don't pay taxes, and get living allowances. Taking money and services for free because of your family is involuntary servitude.

The president, a police officer, and a harvard professor get together to consume alcohol in the White House, and people are still going to jail over marijuana. There is the hypocracy, and that has a much larger foot print than any of the other issues involved.