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Originally Posted by dellinger63
It can if you consider the choice to vaccinate a child is theirs as their estate is theirs as well.
Conversely the other side thinks the choice of whether your child is vaccinated is society's as is your estate.
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Vaccination is society's concern, not your own, because it's a public health issue. There are kids out there (and adults) who can't be vaccinated, due to immune system issues (or being too young), and they depend on the rest of us being responsible to keep them safe. Great Britain has had a rash of measles outbreaks, including deaths, thanks to idiots who bought into the false scares perpetuated by a (now stripped of his license) doctor out to make a quick buck.
As for the estate tax- I agree with Adam Smith and Thomas Jefferson:
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"A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural. There is no point more difficult to account for than the right we conceive men to have to dispose of their goods after death."
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http://www.economist.com/blogs/lexin...unding_fathers
Opposing the estate tax is for those who want oligarchy, not democracy.