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Comment by Danieru

The money was already taxed. I have no problem taxing transactions that have a value add. When I get paid a wage I have created that wealth a tax on the newly created wealth is fine.

No wealth is created when an estate gets handed over. The tax thus stops being a way to assign a percentage of wealth to public projects and becomes a accounting trick. The idea that this simple wealth transfer should be taxed at such a high rate is slly.

parent Danieru 14 years ago

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