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This hits a little too close to home
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Inheritance should be illegal.
It's financial nepotism and I'd rather a society based on equality where nobody has an unfair advantage over anyone else.
It should be illegal to provide for your family? Every man for themself?
Assuming the most generous interpretation of your statement I still think it's putting the cart before the horse. Generationally accrued wealth is currently one of the only paths out of destitution for many people. Inheritance should be unnecessary but until such a time as adequate housing is guaranteed familial property has to be a thing. (I wouldn't be on board even in a proper post-scarcity society, homes are more than just places and personal property is accepted in all but the most extreme interpretations of socialism.)
Inheritance beyond a set amount should be illegal. Billionaires passing on billions of dollars is just wrong.
$100 million cap on all inheritance. $500 million cap on total wealth. Anything beyond that is taxed at 100%.
Any attempt to "donate" the money to a family-controlled "charity" triggers a tax on the entire wealth at 90%.
That's something I can agree with. I think there's a very reasonable compromise somewhere between "children can't have a better life than their parents" and "five families own everything forever, including several governments." $500 million still seems pretty damn high I'd cut that to 50 or even 5.
The problem is selling the law to the lower middle class because they all believe they can get this rich and the tax will affect them.
I'd rather have a higher than it should be limit and reach the 0.01% obscenely rich than have the law beaten to death.
$5 mil is somewhat achievable. While bad, they aren't as bad as those who have $5 BILLION in assets.
Someone who have $5 million has more in common with the poor than those who have $5 billion.
I haven't thought about the subject too deeply, so I'll just interject a consideration. Are you thinking about the situation from a purely individualistic point of view, in which families live completely apart? Intergenerational units are more common in some cultures than others, with everyone contributing to the same household. It would be the same reasoning of spouses getting an inheritance, but you might be against that as well.
Totally, at least anything over some medium amount.
According to who, exactly?
Well if I work and give money to my kids that's quite fair IMO (normal work, no billionaire "work"), so in the 10k range, and then pile taxes upon it.