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> Yes, for me it's either no inheritance tax, or 100% inheritance tax. Then you need to mature your point of view because the world isn't so absurdly simple an
by gnaritas 12y ago
> Yes, for me it's either no inheritance tax, or 100% inheritance tax.
Then you need to mature your point of view because the world isn't so absurdly simple and black and white.
No thinking person can look at this country (U.S.) today and say accumulated wealth isn't causing a whole host of problems. The wealth inequality in this country is bad and needs to be addressed. The rich are out of control.
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoYeah but taxes aren't why. Its the rigged financial markets that have swiftly vacuumed up all the money and put it into the hands of those that - guess what - handle money.
- gnaritas 12y agoThere is no one why, there's a host of things that allow wealth accumulation and they all need to be tackled, but inherited wealth produces dangerous people: aristocrats who have no idea what it means to work and no appreciation for those that do, and that cannot be ignored. And without all that wealth accumulation, the financial markets wouldn't be rigged. They were rigged by the wealthy buying politicians to get the laws they like passed. The markets are a symptom of the problem, they aren't the problem itself; accumulated wealth is the problem.
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoBut the fix is to undo the damage to the markets. At bottom humans are always the problem; but that's not actionable.
- gnaritas 12y agoNope, that's just treating a symptom; they'd just immediately break the market again and that's putting aside the point that they own your politicians and simply wouldn't allow you to fix it. Until you deal with severe wealth accumulation, nothing else matters and yes it is actionable. The French lopped off a few heads, it worked.