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Originally posted by Not Bob
Because you're getting a chunk of money that you didn't have before?
Why should I pay federal excise tax on booze? The money I pull out of my wallet to buy the fifth of Old Grandad has already been suject to the income tax.
Whether something like the estate tax is good public policy or not is one thing -- but calling it immoral is (sorry sebby -- I love you, but ...) just stoopid. It's money. (or a bond or a mansion -- whatever) Your mom wouldn't have it but for the government which created and protects property. She wouldn't have had the estate in Westchester when she kicked it but for the fact that some central authority prevented the Visigoths from burning and looting it.
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But, dude, I want that fucking money. What if I get lucky an my folks' silly investments blow up and they wind up with some major fat cash... I want that shit. I want to be retired early and naked on the beach. And I truly hope to pocket enough in my life to be able to hand over a pretty cushy existence to whatever kid I have. Ideally, I'd love it if I could make enough that the kid never had to work. Life's too short to work. think of how many endless hours we all waste, and we only go round this gig once. Once. I get 70 odd years if I'm lucky and half of them I'm stuck working? Shit, anything to spare my kids the horror of it all.
Being bored senseless and wasting one's hours for money is cruel and unusual. I blame my filthy useless Irish genes for giving me no skills but the ability to prevaricate and twist people's words. I should've been a plumber.
