Bring on the Death Tax

I have believed in a strong inheritance tax since my university days and never saw it as a Right/Left issue. Still don't. But this opinion piece in the Globe and Mail is the first article I've seen on this topic for a long time. Makes sense to me.

Here is an exerpt:

Oddly enough, death taxes used to offer common meeting ground for conservatives and liberals. Adam Smith himself endorsed death taxes inThe Wealth of Nations. “There is no point more difficult to account for than the right we conceive men to have to dispose of their goods after death,” he wrote. “The most absurd of all suppositions [is] that every successive generation of men have not an equal right to the earth.” He said inheritances could be morally justified when used “to provide for dependent children.”