Many, many millionaires will be killing themselves during the next two weeks

Republican Congressman Steve King levels with Sean Hannity:

“The problem I have, and it’s a moral conundrum, is that if you see estate taxes that kick in and go from zero estate tax now to a million dollar exemption in a (55) percent bracket… If that rolls over at the first of the year, there will be probably thousands of families around a deathbed making end-of-life decisions. Instead of their priest or their pastor or their doctor there – they’ll be there, too – the tax man looms over that bed… Some people will decide they don’t want treatment…”

“So you think people will decide not to have treatment at the end of this year and die so they don’t have to pay taxes?” Hannity sounded a bit dubious, but not enough to ask for any evidence or statistics.

“Absolutely,” King said. “I hear those anecdotes now, Sean… That’s the component of this tax discussion that bothers me the most. What happens with the estate taxes and what happens to the moral decisions that people have to make.”

And the world will be a better place.