1) A man and his progeny have a right to the rewards of his labor.

2) A government, most especially a government of and by the people, should not conspire in the theft of those rewards. The descendents of slaves, through the legal institution of slavery itself and the Jim Crow laws that followed, are the only Americans who have been denied, by government, the inheritance their own forebears energy and creativity would have bequeathed them. How can conservatives, who are so outraged at the estate tax, not be outraged by this?