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Perhaps, but I doubt many choose to time their death to minimise estate taxes ;-)
by eftpotrm 16y ago
Perhaps, but I doubt many choose to time their death to minimise estate taxes ;-)
- jerf 16y agoI was only talking about how the metaphor is actually radically more complicated that the thing it is putatively explaining. People mostly aren't timing their deaths (though history has shown it isn't quite the zero you might expect: http://www.nber.org/papers/w8158 http://www.nber.org/papers/w8158), and government taxing simply occurs, there's no customer participation. The metaphor, by introducing those concepts, actually goes wrong.