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> Well that is why we should be calling it an inheritance or chance t
Well that is why we should be calling it an inheritance or chance tax on
undeserved income to the recipient -- lottery winners are taxed no? How can
one tax the dead? Yes the $ difference is very huge and intergenerational is
going to continue to grow for the next 50 or so years according to the
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Title: RE: [PEN-L:26876] Re: RE: Re: Inheritance tax is Marxist
here's a topic for a University of Chicago Ph.D. dissertation: "How the 'Death Tax' Increases the Incentive to Die."
(Of course, as many have pointed out, the fact that the "Death Tax" is re
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From: "Max Sawicky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> The former taxes the dead donor.
> The latter taxes the recipient. Th
The former taxes the dead donor.
The latter taxes the recipient. The difference
could be huge, depending on the details.
mbs
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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Sent: 6/13/2002 9:52
Let us not neglect the fact that the *Estate* tax
(there is no inheritance tax) collects about $30b
a year right now, so it isn't doing much in the way
of redistributing wealth. What's more, regressive
loopholes in the income tax are huge compared
to Estate tax revenue. I even surprized myself
w
In a message dated 6/12/02 12:05:28 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Inheritance tax is Marxist
> by Ian Murray
> 12 June 2002
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> Manifesto
> of the Communist Party
> 1848
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> http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html#Proletarian
> Of course, in the beginning
we tax chance, not death
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From: "Max Sawicky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [PEN-L:26806] RE: Re: Re: Inheritance tax is Marxist
> Neither punchy nor accurate. An inheritance
Neither punchy nor accurate. An inheritance tax is not the same
as an estate tax. Better would have been, we tax one in a thousand
dead people. The rest can rest in peace.
mbs
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> And Gramm saying "death shouldn't be a taxable event" is too. The NYT
> quoted that, balanced by a liberal say
Title: RE: [PEN-L:26801] Re: Re: Inheritance tax is Marxist
the left needs some punchy slogans, rather than punching each other.
(I'm afraid if I tried to be "punchy" by saying "give me socialism or give me death," most people would give me the latter.)
Jim Devine
Michael Perelman wrote:
>Why are the Repugs so brilliant in framing issues? The Death Tax wording
>is a stroke of genius.
And Gramm saying "death shouldn't be a taxable event" is too. The NYT
quoted that, balanced by a liberal saying "we don't tax deaths, we
tax inheritances," but that's nowh
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