I think Kurt makes a great point. The main reason for th Gift Tax is to allow enforcement of other taxes, mostly Estate and Income. When you start arguing about taxes it becomes an extremely slippery slope where you end up with no taxes or purely consumption taxes. I’m not anti-tax, far from it, I don’t think as a well off citizen that I’m unduly burdened. At the same time, I do think pure consumption (or VAT tax) system is on paper better. However from an implemenation stand point especially if you don’t want the VAT to be onerously regressive in nature can be a execution nightmare.
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