inheritance tax seems to me a particularly wicked tax on saving and dying. This form of compulsory wealth redistribution is very like theft, especially as the assets / money being taxed was very often taxed when it was earned too.
The average UK tax burden which, considering all forms of taxation, is, I believe the best part of 40% is surely excessive. It is interesting to note that in 1 Samuel 8:15, God warns against the king who will take a whopping 10% of their production in their taxation. And recall that
But surely the state needs all this cash is levels of service are to be maintained? The answer is for the state to do much, much less.
Rushdoony argues that:
The state, moreover, is making itself progressively the main, and in some countries, the only heir. The state in effect is saying that it will receive the blessing above all others. It offers to educate all children and to support all needy families as the great father of all. It offers support to the aged as the true son and heir who is entitled to collect all of the inheritance as its own. In both roles, however, it is the great corrupter and is at war with God'’s established order, the family.
Quoted in North, Gary, "Free Market Capitalism"” in Clouse, Robert G. (ed.), Wealth & Poverty: Four Christian Views of Economics (Downers Grove, IVP, 1984),
North says:
God'’s law is clear enough: The family is the primary agency of welfare - in education, law enforcement (by teaching biblical law and self-government), care for the aged. The church as the agency for collecting the tithe, also has social welfare obligations. The civil government has almost none. Even in the case of the most pitiable people in
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Signs hanging from lampposts in Wood Green, noticed yesterday:
"96% of Haringey's students achieved 3 good A-level passes"
Notice the use of the family name 'Haringey' and the classic parental trait, being proud in your children's exam results!
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