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

[Nix]

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
>>individual families acquiring excessive wealth (and, historically,
>>explicitly to prevent them acquiring government-challenging levels of
>>power).
>
> 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).

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