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Xavier_Onassis » 05 Jun 2023, 7:54 pm » wrote: ↑

05 Jun 2023, 7:54 pm

... a huge portion of a country's wealth to belong to a few people who did nothing to earn it.

Ya, they did nothing to earn it.    Your jealous effort consists of lobbying government to take it from them for your greedy self.    
 
 
 

Skans » 06 Jun 2023, 8:19 am » wrote: ↑

06 Jun 2023, 8:19 am

At least you answered my question.  I do believe that generational wealth, when allowed to run unchecked, can be dangerous.  It can starve out most people from even being able to live. 

If my family consists of 100 members who all control a pot of money equal to 10 trillion dollars, here are some of the things that I would be inclined to do:

• buy up the best farmland - farm it using robotics (already being done).  I would create a stranglehold on the country's food supply.
• buy all of West Virginia or Mississippi and kick everyone out and bring people in who will vote in a legislature which my family can absolutely control.  First order of business is to eliminate all state income tax and property taxes.  
• create a state military.
• Purchase some **** land in Mexico - this will be where everyone now residing in West Virginia will be forced to live.
• Hire as many "alien workers" (from other states) as I need to secure our state's borders.
• Buy up all of the precious and rare-earth metals, so that our wealth and ability to trade with foreign nations is not dependent on the US dollar.

Perhaps I partner up with one or two other Trillionaire families to take over some surrounding states. We would take over state by state, and anyone who is not in the Trillionaire club will essentially become our slaves or will be exported to Mexico.

So the solution to your perceived problem is theft?
 

Cedar » 09 Jun 2023, 2:23 am » wrote: ↑

09 Jun 2023, 2:23 am

So the solution to your perceived problem is theft?

Dumb comment.  Do you have anything of substance to say to me in response to what I laid out?
 

Skans » 09 Jun 2023, 7:54 am » wrote: ↑

09 Jun 2023, 7:54 am

Dumb comment.  Do you have anything of substance to say to me in response to what I laid out?

It wasn’t dumb, you just didn’t like being called a thief, yet you advocate for the government to confiscate the property of your fellow citizens on your behalf because you think they have too much. How much is too much?

How much land is bought up by “old money” when the patriarch of the small family farm dies and their heirs can’t afford the taxes to keep the farm?
 

Cedar » 09 Jun 2023, 9:54 am » wrote: ↑

09 Jun 2023, 9:54 am

It wasn’t dumb, you just didn’t like being called a thief, yet you advocate for the government to confiscate the property of your fellow citizens
 

Your comment calling me a "thief" was dumb.  I set forth a well reasoned argument for an inheritance tax. The inheritance tax is nothing new and it already exists today.

I am not advocating for the confiscation of any "citizens" property.  Because when a person dies, he is no longer a citizens.  Only Democrats believe that dead people are "citizens" who can vote. Are you a Democrat? 

What I argued in favor of was an inheritance tax.  That is not "theft" under any part of the US constitution.  You seem confused.

 How much is too much?

"Too Much" would be something less than enough to set up a nation within a nation which would have the wherewithal to have its a formidable army, navy, and airforce.

How much land is bought up by “old money” when the patriarch of the small family farm dies and their heirs can’t afford the taxes to keep the farm?

My point goes to the concept of keeping America free from a small group of Oligarchs who use their money to take away our freedoms.  Not toward buying up a family farm when some poor farmer dies.
 

Seems Russians are more free from over taxation.

Flat tax of 13% for everyone who makes under 5 million Rubles per year - about $100,000 per year.

Over that figure the flat tax is 15%.

Very simple.