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which best describes your view of the inheritance tax?

which best describes your view of the inheritance tax?


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again, a statement that you have made a thousand times, but have FAILED to prove...:failpail:

ah so when your overlord claims the rich aren't paying their fair share that was for WHAT purpose?
 
I am all in favor of my income being taxed at the same effective rate as the Unionistas and paying the same amount of death tax that you will
again, no such thing as a death tax...i know it, you know and time for you to move past it....what you are in favor of is screwing all those that make less than you, with the full burden of the upkeep of our society, while all the while claiming that you pay 'too much' in taxes, when, it has been shown repeatedly to you, and which you continue to ignore, your tax burden is at its lowest, and has been for over 50yrs...i've got news for ya, and i know this is going to come as a shock to you, but when you die....YOU REALLY CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU!!!! YOU HAVE NO USE FOR MONEY, LET ALONE MATERIAL OBJECTS WHEN YOUR DEAD!!! now take a deep breath, i didnt mean to give you such a shock, but you needed to know the truth...glad i could help you out.
 
ah so when your overlord claims the rich aren't paying their fair share that was for WHAT purpose?
provide proof of your statement, or quit making it. simple as
 
again, no such thing as a death tax...i know it, you know and time for you to move past it....what you are in favor of is screwing all those that make less than you, with the full burden of the upkeep of our society, while all the while claiming that you pay 'too much' in taxes, when, it has been shown repeatedly to you, and which you continue to ignore, your tax burden is at its lowest, and has been for over 50yrs...i've got news for ya, and i know this is going to come as a shock to you, but when you die....YOU REALLY CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU!!!! YOU HAVE NO USE FOR MONEY, LET ALONE MATERIAL OBJECTS WHEN YOUR DEAD!!! now take a deep breath, i didnt mean to give you such a shock, but you needed to know the truth...glad i could help you out.

I tire of the mindset that you and yours are more entitled to other peoples wealth than those that the creator of wealth bequeaths it o

and it is a death tax whether you lovers of that abomination want to deny that.

ANd the rich are paying more of the tax burden now than at any time in the last 50 years because people like you are paying LESS.


The good news is that unions are dying and the sooner they are gone the sooner we can get back to wiping the stain of welfare socialism out of this country
 
provide proof of your statement, or quit making it. simple as

So why does Obama constantly make those statements? They are clearly designed to whip up the support of the envious
 
I see you haven't voted on this poll yet Randel. Interesting
 
So why does Obama constantly make those statements? They are clearly designed to whip up the support of the envious
provide the proof of your statement, or quit making it...quit diverting, you have been called on this before, and i'm calling it on you now, provide proof of your statement..you have a habit of spouting off and providing nothing to back up your statements. your opinion isnt going to cut it. i want proof.
 
provide the proof of your statement, or quit making it...quit diverting, you have been called on this before, and i'm calling it on you now, provide proof of your statement..you have a habit of spouting off and providing nothing to back up your statements. your opinion isnt going to cut it. i want proof.

Is this the standard play of the extreme left again-demanding proof of the obvious in an effort to divert

everyone knows obama made these statements and I am asking you what you feel he means by this
 
Is this the standard play of the extreme left again-demanding proof of the obvious in an effort to divert

everyone knows obama made these statements and I am asking you what you feel he means by this
if everything is so obvious turtle, then providing proof should be easy for you...you constantly scream about dems 'buying votes' with tax dollars, well, PROVE IT!! For someone who is supposedly a lawyer, you do a piss poor job of backing up your argument...just sayin'
 
it is income being recieved, and should be taxed as such, it should be treated the same as the paycheck i bring home every week....what i'm in favor of is fairness...why should money that someone 'inherited' be treated different than ordinary earned income?
I agree, an inheritance should be tax-free just like income.
 
....have everyone only pay their fair share.

If you want to pay lower taxes, spend less. It's that easy.

That is a gross oversimplification of a very complex issue.
 
but that wouldn't get the dems votes

Oh I am sure that with the right wing floating all sorts of repressive measures the Democrats would have no trouble getting votes against the enemy at the gates.

The right wing does a very good job on their own of scaring the hell out of average people and motivating them to vote without any promises of goodies or incentives dangled in front of them. We know that because no matter how many times you allege such things, you never have provided any evidence of it.
 
exactly right. Many of the uberrich like the death tax since it kills off the competition.

Please do give us some examples of just how this works and the names of the advocates and how they benefit for the estate tax.
 
I am all in favor of my income being taxed at the same effective rate as the Unionistas and paying the same amount of death tax that you will

Besides the rich and their toadies and sycophants, who is advocating that here?
 
again, a statement that you have made a thousand times, but have FAILED to prove...:failpail:

Pompous pontifications by the gross it would seem is the speciality of the far right. They certainly know what they believe. The big problem they have is they just cannot prove it to anybody else not hopped up on their ideological kool-aid. ;)
 
I tire of the mindset that you and yours are more entitled to other peoples wealth than those that the creator of wealth bequeaths it o

I tire of the mindset that you and yours are entitled to an elitist class status inheriting other peoples wealth simply because of an accident of birth without earning it.
 
It has nothing to do with the law, and everything to do with simple economics.

Income in the form of personal consumption or business investment is included under what economists term "national income." That is, the national economy as a whole receives a flow of income whenever an employer pays his employee, AND whenever that employee goes down the street to the convenience store to buy some gum or chips or beef jerky. These transactions happen when there is an equal exchange of value - an employer paying a worker for his labor, a consumer going down the street to the store to buy something for his personal consumption, etc. All these are included under "national income," of which GDP or GNI are rough equivalents. GDP and GNI are numbers that represent the flow of income for a country's economy on an annual basis, as I'm sure you already know.

Transfer payments of liquid wealth DO NOT fall under the same category. The are simply handing money from one party to another. In other words, inheritance is NOT INCOME.
Good explanation.
 
So why does Obama constantly make those statements? They are clearly designed to whip up the support of the envious

There you go again... playing that all purpose last gasp desperate ENVY CARD. Take that away from you and you really have nothing in the way of a proper intellectual argument.
 
Good explanation.

Actually not. We can define what it income any way we want to define it as long as it involves money or wealth being acquired by a person that they did not previously have as their own. There are no hard and fast rules for the acquisition of money or wealth and a fine line between what is income and what is not. This equal exchange of value nonsense is but one example of making crap up as you go along to fit what you want the definition to say. Last night one poster went on and on and on about it until he finally had to admit it was simply his own personal belief and not a law or a principle.

INCOME - money COMES IN to a persons pocket or account. INCOME/ COME IN/ INCOME/ COME IN. Get it now? Its not that hard to see.

We as a nation and our government needs to stop discrimination on the source of money coming into a persons pocket or account and simply treat all financial gain as income and tax it accordingly.
 
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Is this the standard play of the extreme left again-demanding proof of the obvious in an effort to divert

everyone knows obama made these statements and I am asking you what you feel he means by this

"everyone knows".

"common knowledge".

"common sense"

"its obvious"


I wonder why during my two years of debate in college we simply did not throw these trump cards out on the table every time our ass got cornered and we had no evidence to the contrary?
 
I tire of the mindset that you and yours are more entitled to other peoples wealth than those that the creator of wealth bequeaths it o

and it is a death tax whether you lovers of that abomination want to deny that.

ANd the rich are paying more of the tax burden now than at any time in the last 50 years because people like you are paying LESS.


The good news is that unions are dying and the sooner they are gone the sooner we can get back to wiping the stain of welfare socialism out of this country
unions are not the topic, your lack of backing up with actual proof, of your statements, is......
 
"everyone knows".

"common knowledge".

"common sense"

"its obvious"


I wonder why during my two years of debate in college we simply did not throw these trump cards out on the table every time our ass got cornered and we had no evidence to the contrary?
like i said, if it were that obvious, he should have no trouble at all providing the proof that has been asked for....and again, piss poor job of backing his argument, especially from someone who is supposedly a lawyer.
 
like i said, if it were that obvious, he should have no trouble at all providing the proof that has been asked for....and again, piss poor job of backing his argument, especially from someone who is supposedly a lawyer.

And that indeed is the puzzle wrapped inside the enigma. It really makes no sense at all given the level of education, training and nature of the profession itself. Its contradictory in the extreme.
 
Actually not. We can define what it income any way we want to define it as long as it involves money or wealth being acquired by a person that they did not previously have as their own. There are no hard and fast rules for the acquisition of money or wealth and a fine line between what is income and what is not. This equal exchange of value nonsense is but one example of making crap up as you go along to fit what you want the definition to say. Last night one poster went on and on and on about it until he finally had to admit it was simply his own personal belief and not a law or a principle.

INCOME - money COMES IN to a persons pocket or account. INCOME/ COME IN/ INCOME/ COME IN. Get it now? Its not that hard to see.
Yes, that's one way to look at it. But we can define what is income any way we want to define it, and I'll support StillBallin's explanation over yours.

I wonder about your definition of income. If I give my kid ten bucks to go to the movies, is that $10 income to him? How about if I give him a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast, is that bowl of oatmeal income to him?

We as a nation and our government needs to stop discrimination on the source of money coming into a persons pocket or account and simply treat all financial gain as income and tax it accordingly.
Yes, tax every bowl of oatmeal!
 
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