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Originally Posted by Pulgasari
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100% inheritance tax, you little scamp.
equality of opportunity!
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In theory I support this, but in practice it's all but impossible to implement. If you set a 100% inheritance tax, the rich will just give all their wealth away before they die (at whatever the, much lower, income tax rate is for the recipients).
Plus, as much as it sounds great to say "let everyone start equal", it's just not the reality of the world. Human beings want to provide a better life for their children, and trying to completely prevent that is fighting against human nature.
We're never going to eliminate the rich (in our lifetimes at least), nor will we eliminate them making their children rich. But we
can set much higher income and innheritance tax rates than we currently have, and that
would be better for society.
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Originally Posted by Pulgasari
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Now that OP is banned I can admit this is pretty close to graverobbing [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] |
He's not banned, he's just messing with you.
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Originally Posted by Jibartik
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The inheritance tax is a crime. A crime people allow because they hate chad.
The only people it hurts are poor people because rich people don't GAF about it because chad figure's out ways around it. Like buying all the houses so you cant afford them and then transferring ownership to holding companies and you're like "guess ill sell my family home because I cant pay for this"
Sugar taxes
smoking taxes
sales taxes
all this stuff is a flat tax on the poor.
We live in a reganmerica disguised as a hopeful socialist utopia.
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In Jib's world all taxes are bad and only hurt poor people
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(Although for the record, I agree with you that most of those are taxes on the poor ... just not inheritance tax. Almost by definition, the poor have nothing to inherit: they have debt.)