[Gllug] [OT] Times Article on ABD was Fighting a virus

[David Damerell]

On Friday, 23 Feb 2007, Nix wrote:
>On 23 Feb 2007, David Damerell said:
>> On Thursday, 22 Feb 2007, Nix wrote:
>>>I thought that was the only purpose of inheritance tax... to stop
>>Also, if you're going to tax anyone, dead people seem like a good
>>choice to me. 
>Well, sort of: you're taxing the inheritors, really (dead people can't
>own anything, they're dead).

That's another way of looking at it - and in that case, you're taxing
people who did no work at all to earn the money and property. Either
way, IHT looks better to me than almost any other taxation.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?
Today is Brieday, February.
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