Doesn’t apply for estates less than $VAST_SUM, actually. Most people leaving something behind don’t get taxed at all.
This really is the difficult problem of racial disparity, isn’t it? Because there isn’t anything you can do about it, not really. Oh, you could fix it, but you’d have to fix it for everyone and not only would the usual suspects howl “SOCIALISM!1!” in this instance they’d be right.
