Comment Re:ahhh, civic duty (Score 5, Insightful) 86
Let me have a go at explaining this using your framing so that you might understand why other people think estate taxes are just fine.
Lee isn't being double dipped. That's because Lee isn't paying the estate tax.
His family are paying tax and it's at the time they "earned" it. Which is when they inherited it.
There is no double dip.