It’s no fun when the IRS take a big bite out of your paycheck. But it’s even worse when the taxman makes you pay additional layers of tax on the same income. And the ultimate outrage is when the government imposes another layer of tax just because you die. Plenty of economists have complained that the death tax is a punitive form of double taxation that penalizes capital formation, but Whoopi Goldberg probably did more to advance the cause of death tax repeal when she pointed out the moral injustice of the current system during a recent episode of ABC’s The View.