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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
"Shysters" and "spivs" should not be implied attributes of honest people who have worked hard to build their assets or who have inherited property passed down from their parents. The £1m threshold has been artificially manipulated by fiscal drag to dip into more pockets than before. The tax is totally immoral and the damn Trots shouldn't be looking over their shoulders at hard working, successful families. Politics of envy leads to violent revolution sometimes.
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Such absurd fulminations.
For a kick off, inheritance tax is in effect levied on those receiving the inheritance, not the one leaving it, because the one leaving it is dead. It can’t affect them in any way. It is a tax on the transfer of wealth that is by its very definition unearned. Absolutely nothing to do with how hard the recipient works themselves. And that is in fact the problem. There are people who are wealthy purely because their parents, grandparents and great grandparents have managed to leave a cascade of wealth flowing down the generations and who therefore have a large number of built-in advantages over those who did not inherit wealth. No society that believes itself to be democratic and meritocratic should leave that totally unchecked. Because yes, when after several generations the inequalities become egregious, that’s when revolutions occur.