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

[Nix]

On 23 Feb 2007, David Damerell told this:

> 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.

Indeed. And it does, after all, serve a worthwhile social purpose: or it
would if the very rich didn't find it so very easy to completely dodge
it.

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  --- Bruce Schneier on the shortage of company names
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