Guardian: Why Not Have 100% 'Inheritance Tax'? | Daily Wire

Guardian: Why Not Have 100% 'Inheritance Tax'? | Daily Wire:

"It is unfair that some inherit more wealth than others given their familial circumstances, argues Wilkinson:

Morally speaking, people who stand to inherit large sums haven’t done anything to earn that money. An accident of birth placed them in a comparatively wealthy family and they’ve benefited from that their whole life. Some people who stand to inherit have struggled, true, but so have many people who won’t inherit anything at all.

Living people have greater needs than the dead, argues Wilkinson in her advocacy for a confiscatory “inheritance tax”:

But what if the desires of the dead directly damage the wellbeing of the living?"