"pyotr filipivich" wrote in message
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Ignoramus18915 on Fri, 30 Jul
2010 13:31:24 -0500 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
That you don't like inherited wealth doesn't matter. You can give
it all away - and not take the tax deduction.

I would not give anything away until my children are well provided
for.

Bah, you are one of the capitalist running dogs, those who inherit
wealth are the worst of the lot.

I'm sorry citizen, but you are being greedy, by not sharing the
wealth.

You live in a Rush Limbaugh fantasy land.

I highly recommend not listening to Rush Limbaugh at all, and trying
to re-establish your grip on reality. I do mean well when I say it, do
not take it as an insult.

I'm sorry, but it does seem to me that you are the one who seems
to feel that I should have a claim to your money, because I am poor
and you are not. And that your children don't need it, being the
offspring of a rich corporatist.

What Iggy is proposing is basically the position of most people throughout
history, throughout western societies. It you read the sections on taxation
of inheritances since Roman times, in Adam Smith's _The Wealth of Nations_
(particularly the Appendices to Articles I and II, v.2.113 and following,
you'll see that the basic principle hasn't changed.

It's a much more thoughtful and sensible case than the simplistic and
extremist nonsense that you're proposing here.

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Ed Huntress