Confirmation of your simplistic view. The point was that Luntz needed to manipulate the language to villify what is just like any other taxed income. Sorry to tell you this, but your taxes are used to help people you don't care about all the time, e.g. when police respond to a crime. That's because civilized people agree on the idea of a common good served by police, fire and other institutions. So stop whining that you may not get as rich on your inheritance as you'd like.