Somewhat Related

Steve Sailer has some reader comments and comments of his own on a possible future where baby-boomers seek the timely death of their parents so they can line their pockets.

He says that in a law "pushed through by the Bush Administration in 2001, the inheritance tax drops from 45% to 0% on January 1, 2010, then rises to 55% on January 1, 2011." It makes for some scary possibilities, but my guess is that it was structured this way so that opponents would be satisfied (the tax eventually goes up) but they will be able to make a big stink about opponents raising taxes and death costing you more than half of what you have. It will give them an opportunity to make the opposition look bad. It might work, or, as Steve Sailer points out, it might just lead to a whole lot of abuse and death (but certainly not neglect!).