Born free. Taxed to death.

出生是免费的，死亡是收税的。

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Who says we are taxed to death?

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And if you are a taxed-to-death blue-stater yourself, where would you move if you could?

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First, by the corporate income tax, then again by the individual income tax through the tax on dividends, then if you sell the capital investment, through the capital gains tax (which taxes the increase in the present value of the future income stream to the investment, which will be taxed again when earned), then when you die, by the death tax.

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