We pay more taxes on our copyright earnings quarterly than most Americans earn in in a year - and way more than you pay on your real estate. Don't talk to me about taxes. Why don't you get off your ass and write some novels? Stay up all night for weeks at a time, when you're done try and sell them to an agency good enough to sell them to a publisher. Write one or two novels a year that way, losing sleep and missing your kids' school events in order to meet a deadline. Then sit back and listen to ignorant dumb-asses declare that you don't have a right to own the rights to intellectual property you created. Go ahead try that and get back to me.
Look, I’m not against copywrite protections that are reasonable. They were set up as a deal in which both sides benefited. The holder was protected for a reasonable amount of time at the publics expense after which the public bebefited as it entered the public domain. Lifetime + 70 years is way beyond reasonable.