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I'm not, at least not directly. I rent.
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Trust me, you landlord has included his property taxes into your rent.
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And escrow, and MI, and hazard, etc. (I work data analytics / applications at a mortgage company. I know.)
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I feel like if it would be possible to lower income and goods taxes, and raise inheritance taxes to make up for it, that would be a really good trade off. Because if the sixties have taught us anything, it's that rich kids are everything that is wrong with society.
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Rich parents know how to get around inheritance taxes, but you're right about rich kids.
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There really isn't enough volume in inheritances. IME, the people who rail about raising inheritance taxes also bemoan the demise of things like family farms and mom and pop grocery stores. It's really more of a feel good tax than a staple of government revenue.
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We should just move to consumption taxes. Why should production get taxed?
Or a democratic lump sum tax. Or random lump sum taxation. These are probably too real for America, though.
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Its a pragmatism thing. Just because the parents were skilled enough at something to become wealthy (assuming they earned their wealth) doesn't mean the children will have the same (or even any) skills, which they would need in order to effectively manage their parents' business/property/whatever.
The thing is, while it's certainly important to keep an eye on what we might be moving towards, we should never forget about what we're moving away from. We still have work to do, removing the remnants of feudalism from our society, before we let our utopian dreams get ahead of ourselves.
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Yeah, this is where split as new topic is handy. Politic shouldn't stay in coding help. One post seems appropriate.
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But where do we put the meta-discussion we're having right now?
Or the meta-meta-discussion that the post that replies to this one will inadvertently start?
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Those are typical on topic discussions inside discussions. Politics and a few other things sprawl hundreds of posts. Consider it a sidebar vs an Avalanche.
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Its a pragmatism thing. Just because the parents were skilled enough at something to become wealthy (assuming they earned their wealth) doesn't mean the children will have the same (or even any) skills, which they would need in order to effectively manage their parents' business/property/whatever.
That's pretty much the opposite of pragmatism from the perspective of taxing, which is there to fund the government.
The thing is, while it's certainly important to keep an eye on what we might be moving towards, we should never forget about what we're moving away from. We still have work to do, removing the remnants of feudalism from our society, before we let our utopian dreams get ahead of ourselves.
I think we (in the US at least) have sufficiently gotten rid of old style feudalism. We've reinvented it to a certain extent in our bureaucracies, however.
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Out of my topic with this! There's an external link to feudalism above.
Shoo, shoo!
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There is now.
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Out of my topic with this! There's an external link to feudalism above.
Shoo, shoo!
Are you trying to channel Jeff there?
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No, politics are the chupicabre
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Go to another thread!
Seriously though, stop with the politics in coding help. Take it to meta.
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I propose we hold elections to determine whether we can have politics inside coding help.
All discussions, candidate submissions and voting can take place inside this thread.
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But we can only have a poll at the top of a topic! Someone will need to volunteer to tally votes.
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We can use likes for that. I am not against @cartman82's idea, but like my post if you are. Like his if you are for it.
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We can have the poll somewhere else and the discussion here.
