Then there are taxes. This

country should be ashamed of itself for allowing this tax in the first

place. Entrepreneurial businesses and farms have paid numerous taxes on

income and assets their entire existence and then when the owner dies

our government has given the IRS the right to absurdly tax it again. Ludicrous!

Stop taking away the incentives of ownership! Let there be family farms

and businesses. Let's train and encourage people to do for themselves

and live life, not become dependent and slaves of the government.

We as a country like to let

the world know that America is a land of opportunity, but we fail to mention

that it is becoming a land where our families are forced to give up our

hard-earned opportunities, due to taxation, once we are dead. Democrats

and the media share a lot of the blame for this by making out that this

tax is only a "rich man's" tax. This is absurd.

Why, any way, should it be

a bad thing to be rich? Isn't that one of the rewards of opportunity.

Gerald Gentrup

Jonesboro