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Such a twisted view. If someone works hard their whole life, and wants their hard-earned (and already taxed) money/investments to give their children a leg-up,
by yossarian1408 5y ago
Such a twisted view. If someone works hard their whole life, and wants their hard-earned (and already taxed) money/investments to give their children a leg-up, who are you to say no?
So they waste half a million on a ritzy house, or spend a couple of months in Spain with their own kids. What's it to you?
- aaron-santos 5y agoZoom out a bit and apply systems-level thinking. We all know that a small number of locally applied rules lead to complex emergent behavior. Millions of individual inheritance decisions have an impact. We can choose to believe that people, individually making self-interested decisions, aggregates into a net good, but I'm not exactly convinced based on whatever first principles are in play.
- exporectomy 5y agoI'm not saying no. I completely agree with you. You must have misread my comment.
- alisonkisk 5y agoWe can tell people the money goes to their kids, but tax it after the parent dies, so their feelings aren't hurt.