A short advice-focused YouTube segment by Craig Wear, CFP® warning viewers about passive attitudes toward heirs' tax burdens. He challenges the common remark "I don't care what my kids pay in taxes," reframing it as tacitly agreeing to let the government take a larger share of an inheritance and urging listeners to pay attention to tax consequences and estate planning.
Now, one of the things that I hear people say a lot is I don't care what my kids are going to pay in taxes. If they get anything, it's more than I ever got and they can just pay the tax on it. And I get that. But at the same time, what you're also saying is I'm okay with the government getting the amount, a bigger amount than what my kids are going to get. I'm okay with the government getting more than what they're entitled to because I'm just going to kind of put my head in the sand and I'm not, I'm just going to forget about it. And I don't, I don't mean that in an ugly way, but I'm just trying to catch your attention. That that's really what you're saying is that I don't care if the government gets a bunch of it. My kids can just kind of fight with the government over it.
