If all of those things are “inheritance,” I’m talking about something more specific – the legal process of reassigning the property rights of deceased people. The state is necessarily involved in this, since it defines and enforces property rights. Different states have different policies ranging from no inheritance tax, to the status quo in the US and the UK, to punitive taxes intended to radically redistribute wealth, to the total abolition of inheritances. We can have a reasonable discussion about changing the status quo at the margin without assuming the implementation of full communism.
