EarlzP
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real doctors don't have time for that idiotic nonsense
I will let her know that the
has spoken.warrior of the wetlands
real doctors don't have time for that idiotic nonsense
has spoken.warrior of the wetlands
I never said that there is no wealth that should not be passed on to the next generation. I said it should be taxed..... much like we tax income.
You have the right to think what you want about peoples motivations - however, I do not think the thought of someone having to pay a tax on a fortune of amassing tens of millions of dollars is going to stop them from amassing that fortune.
When I die and pass on my corvette, and my house, on to my kids, I don't want them to have to pay a tax on something that is to be their "start" in life, so to speak. Gifts should not be taxable. it's wrong.
real doctors don't have time for that idiotic nonsense
While I feel bad for the situation you and the folks you write about are in, what did anyone think they could do with a English lit degree?
This economy stinks, but it has been bottoming out for the last 30 years, propped up by personal and government debt until that could not rise any more. Why aren't people protesting about free trade. Obama promised us fair trade where is it. Without fair trade we send our manufacturing jobs overseas and instead wind up with service sector jobs like the kind you find yourself in.
When will the public stop being led like sheep by one party or the other. This new rally is just the Democratic response of the tea party.
I agree. And unemployment isn't the issue with my age group and younger, college grad crowd. The issue is the fact that, with my last job I had, I ran a crappy little restaurant, my dishwasher had a 4 year degree in english lit, or something like that, one of my servers had a 4 year in psychology, and is now working on her masters, so she continue to be a sever, one of my cashiers had 4 year in business managment, and I myslef have a 4 year degree. NOT in restaurant management. I hire these people because, of all the applications I get (which are a LOT, consistently), if I had to choose, I'll choose the folks that had the brains and determination to finish out their degrees in college, over people largely untested and unverifiable until AFTER hiring. You know? And now I'm outa work, because that place went under, and I've been looking for work for the past 3 months and a week. I have a part time job, at BJ's wholesale club, in the meat dept. But that only supliments unemployment. I need at least 43,000 a year, give or take, in order to really be ok. I need at LEAST 37,000 a year just to keep me and my family in the black. The extra is for college for the kids, retirement, and god forbid I ever want to be able to afford a car should one of mine breaks down. And personally, I consider myself much more fortunate than most.
You still fail to respond to respond to what I said to YOU. I understand you are old and feeble so I will respectfully repeat my assertion. That is that for generations we have had as aspirational society that as a basis meant that one generation strove in order that their children would be in a better place.
You seem to indicate that there is no level of wealth that should be passed along from generation to generation. I say that doing this would make it less likely for middle that have made it to the middle class or a bit beyond will be motivated to work a few more years to build a nest egg that will eventually go to the government.
Now you can either respond or keep the nonsense and have mindless knuckleheads "like" another non response.
That is the subject, raising taxes on the rich when the rich pay most of the taxes now and 47% of income earners pay nothing in FIT. You are the one running so either answer the question or just admit that you are a troll
Like practicing free speech? I'm sure glad the founders found the time from their busy schedules (lawyers, doctors, shop owners) for political action.
AFAIK no one is proposing that we should have a 100% estate tax for all bequests. In 2009, fewer than 15,000 estates in the whole country paid any tax at all.
We are in a situation where, for the first time, the next generation, and perhaps the next generation after that, will do less well than the preceding generation. And it has nothing to do with estate taxes. It has to do with putting personal greed above the public welfare.
the estate tax is pure greed
real doctors don't have time for that idiotic nonsense
the estate tax is pure greed
employed professionals aren't the ones out there smelling like something out of the swamp
out there smelling like something out of the swamp
If it is under a couple million you have nothing to worry about
And exception doesn't invalidate the rule. I'de say it's 50/50, though. With new money and old money. And the absolute, balls out richest people...were BORN that way.
I never said that there is no wealth that should not be passed on to the next generation. I said it should be taxed..... much like we tax income.
You have the right to think what you want about peoples motivations - however, I do not think the thought of someone having to pay a tax on a fortune of amassing tens of millions of dollars is going to stop them from amassing that fortune.
... said the trust fund baby.
When I die and pass on my corvette, and my house, on to my kids, I don't want them to have to pay a tax on something that is to be their "start" in life, so to speak. Gifts should not be taxable. it's wrong.
Yet YOU have time to post here all day....
This is probably going to amaze you but I agree that at a certain level there should be taxes on estates. From what I took out of your prior postings was that you wanted to confiscate all of whatever is left of my estate.
No, its one of the most effective forms of taxation. Why concentrate capital with those that have not earned it? That seems so un-free enterprise...
If it is not employed professionals who do you think is
Well sorry that fact gets in the way of a nice narrative but lets look at the richest people, Bill Gates, warren Buffet the guy from facebook even a lot of the hedge fund guys did not come from very rich families. Oh, Steve Jobs. Of course there are the people like Senator Kerry who married into the ketchup family and the Waltons from Wal-Mart.
We have a bad few years, but people should not give up on the opportunities afforded in this great nation.
another moronic lie. the compliance and avoidance costs are higher than the revenues. its a most inefficient tax that was never designed to really raise revenue but was a progressive wet dream in the days before really progressive income taxes
WTF did the government do to earn it and the people most affected by this parasitic tax are those who ALREADY PAY FAR MORE TAXES THAN THE REST OF THE COUNTRY
I also note that the parasite mentality does not want to apply this tax to everyone even though the moronic argument of "not earning it" is even more applicable to people who don't pay much or any income tax