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While I agree in principle, in practice it's kind of pointless. Inheritance taxes are incredibly easy to dodge.

Do you have any evidence to back this up?

As other's have noted it can be bypassed through providing assets to children before death.

It's not THAT easy. Gifts are taxable: http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Em...

So are trust fund transfers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation-skipping_transfer_ta...

At anything like a 50% estate tax, a 20-millionaire can just hire a bunch of family members at $100,000 a year and lose less in income and payroll taxes.

It's not 100% trivial, but there is an entire industry devoted to helping people with this. That industry really shouldn't exist.

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