inheritance tax

If you die and pass your assets to your children, is it fair for the government to take up to 40 percent of your children's inheritance? (And now President Obama wants to raise it up to 60 percent.) Please take my poll and let me know your thoughts...

Is it fair for your government to tax a father or mother's assets a second time when they die by making their inheritors — usually their children — pay a tax on their inheritance? I am talking about the "inheritance tax" — or what many call the "death tax...