BTW, maybe the title of this thread should be "the inheritance tax is pro-capitalist." After all, I remember reading something by arch-capitalist Andrew Carnegie that argued for taxing inheritances. Inheritances lead to spoiled scions of great wealth, who spend all their time snorting cocaine, etc.
BTW, what's the difference between the "estate tax" and the "inheritance tax"?
JD
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From: Ian Murray
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Subject: [PEN-L:26839] Re: Inheritance tax is Marxist
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From: "Charles Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [PEN-L:26838] Inheritance tax is Marxist
> Inheritance tax is Marxist
> by Ian Murray
> 12 June 2002 19:09 UTC
>
>
>
>
> > Manifesto
> > of the Communist Party
> > 1848
> >
> >
http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html#Proletarian
> > Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means
> of despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions
of
> bourgeois production; by means of measures, therefore, which appear
> economically insufficient and untenable, but which, in the course of
the
> movement, outstrip themselves, necessitate further inroads upon the
old
> social order, and are unavoidable as a means of entirely
revolutionizing
> the mode of production.
> >
> > These measures will, of course, be different in different countries.
> >
> > Nevertheless, in most advanced countries, the following will be
pretty
> generally applicable.
> >
> > 1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of
land
> to public purposes.
> >
> > 2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
> >
> > 3. ABOLITION OF ALL RIGHTS OF INHERITANCE ( emphasis added -CB)
> >
>
> =====================
>
> The philosophical and legal arguments for abolishing inheritance had
> been around before KM was even born.
>
> ^^^^^^^^
>
> CB: You provided the heading - "Inheritance tax is _Marxist_". What
is the significance of it being Marxist, since, no doubt, the
inheritance tax was around before KM was born , too ?
>
====================
Because Phil Gramm, incorrectly, asserted it was a Marxist idea. That
Marx was even mentioned by a major US politician in the 21st century is
interesting no?
Ian
Ian
