No — I it is not silly — IT IS UNFAIR!
I work hard my whole life, and I pay a LOT of taxes on my estate. I pay income tax on every penny I earn to buy my stuff. I pay property tax. I pay sales tax. I already gave the government their fair share (arguably, more than their fair share).
Who the hell in the government thinks they have the right to tax AGAIN what I already paid for? And tax it at a very high rate? By the time my kids inherit my estate, the government will have taken at least HALF of it away from me (unless of course I pay a good estate planner to help me plan appropriately to prevent my kids from loosing so much of what I leave them). Guess what, I’d rather pay the estate planner than let the government steal away what I worked for.
These type of taxes are outrageous, and citizens need to stand up and fight back. The few voices yelling about them (like mine) are simply not enough to bring about fair reform.