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How is inheritance "parasitism"? I can understand wanting to reform patent laws, since they are sometimes too broad or slow down innovation, but inheritance is just part of capitalism. If the state did not allow parents to pass down wealth to children, then that would undermine a lot of ambition. Realistically, you'd also see far more tax evasion on the part of the wealthy.Originally Posted by The Sage of Main Street
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They didn't during the Dark Ages, and they didn't before Christ.
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I have never understood those who seem to feel that the government is entitled to a large piece of what assets you've built up once you die. In a capitalist economy, it just doesn't make any sense.
“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” - Robert E. Howard
"Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas and not eat a chicken fried steak." - Larry McMurtry
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It being "his own money" doesn't excuse anti-social behavior. Just like bribing officials to help his kid win, no one has the right to tilt the competition of the next generation in favor of his own sons.
It has nothing to do with Capitalism; in fact, it destroys the achievements of Capitalists by awarding their sons, who achieved nothing, with control over the businesses created by people who created something. Heirs make solid achievements crumble like ancient statues; putting inferior people in superior positions causes depressions. Imagine if athletes were given the right to pass on their positions to their sons and you'll get the picture of how hereditary power, position, property, and influence destroy structures. It is the most destructive and most hidden cancer of all time. Only mind control of the mainstream and all its wild-goose-chase alternatives forces Americans to accept this obsolete Old World tradition.
No man with any self-respect would enter a competition where HeirHeads are pre-positioned halfway to the finish line. No American should put up with this medieval tyranny; anyone who lets it happen belongs back slaving all day in the fields while the illegitimate hereditary owners feast all night in the castles.
This privilege is overreaching. Sex on demand with his employees would also encourage ambition, so that is not a reason to continue this Affirmative Action for the Affluent. Besides, if someone insists on some kind of divine right to pick winners and losers (including no-talent brown-noses to compete with his no-talent sons) in the next generation, he must have gotten his own wealth through luck or cheating, too. Self-made men who preach doing it on your own in public are secretly ashamed of themselves or they would demand the same from their sons.
This is why their are few real men left in America, only richboys and their manservants.
On the outside, trickling down on the Insiders
We won't live free until the Democrats, and their voters, live in fear.
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You couldn't be farther off base. For one thing, not everyone - only a small percentage, in fact - is leaving a family business to their heirs; usually it's just savings and investments, maybe a bit of property. Someone who leaves the fruits of their labors to family isn't "putting inferior persons" - a presumptuous judgment on your part anyway - in charge of anything. How do you figure that the State has a better claim on what I've earned and saved than my children do? Is it okay if my wife inherits my money and stuff...or is she just out of luck, too? Speaking of stuff, do you want government bean counters dispatched to every dead person's home to inventory their belongings...maybe have a big yard sale and forward the proceeds to the Treasury Department?
“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” - Robert E. Howard
"Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas and not eat a chicken fried steak." - Larry McMurtry
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Though unfair all the way across it, the biggest problem we've faced in this world for 2000 years is sectarian governmental authority. THAT is what is responsible for Islamic terrorism and it - sectarianism - is trying to encroach into our US constitution. It was sectarianism that drove our American Revolution and created the first amendment.
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