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New York Times Op-Ed: Rich Kids Can Spare Some of Their Inheritance
New York Times ^ | 10/16/2019 | Henry Aaron

Posted on 10/16/2019 9:11:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: Sacajaweau

“ How many times do you want to tax it.”

Until they have all of it.

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22 posted on 10/16/2019 9:26:30 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Rocky

My husband’s family had to sell the family farm to pay taxes (not in arrears). Each sibling was promised 15 bucolic acres in upper Bucks County, PA on which to build a house. Instead they each got a few thousand measly dollars.


23 posted on 10/16/2019 9:28:57 AM PDT by Scarpetta (The election of Donald Trump is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy.)
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To: ConservativeDude

What they are missing, is that if you inherit money, that you will be taxed on interest income or investment earnings from the inheritance.

This article starts from.a false premise that somehow there are no taxes owed in the inheritance situation.


24 posted on 10/16/2019 9:29:45 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: SeekAndFind

“That isn’t fair, is it? “

What does fair have to do with it? Someone already paid taxes on the worth before they passed, why isn’t that enough? And since it was earned by someone wishing for someone to have it and depending on which states you live in will depend on if you have to pay taxes on something that was already taxed to earn and is nothing more than existing. Plus the person(s) inheriting the worth will be paying fees too a lot of people to receive it, thus creating work the states will tax.

You could almost call this a monopoly by getting something for nothing.....or maybe a racket. Currently, there are six states with an inheritance tax. These states include: Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Nebraska, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Instead of making it fair by taxing people for previously taxed worth, get rid of the state laws that tax property that has nothing to do with them already paid for.

rwood


26 posted on 10/16/2019 9:31:26 AM PDT by Redwood71
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To: SeekAndFind

“In America, if you play by the rules, working to earn a living and saving to provide for the future, taxes take a piece of your earnings”
EXACTLY> So what you choose to do with the rest is your business


27 posted on 10/16/2019 9:34:08 AM PDT by RWGinger (Does anyone else really)
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To: SeekAndFind

“most inheritances consist of gains on financial assets or on businesses that were never taxed and under current law never will be.”

Working capital, ‘seed corn’, the stuff that creates jobs and makes money for the so called underclass.

Anyone else remember the boat builders that lost their jobs because government decided to tax the rich and added extra taxes to luxury boats.
The government took the money away from the boat builders through trickle down taxation.


28 posted on 10/16/2019 9:34:47 AM PDT by fproy2222 ( Good Common sense depends on who you are in common with.)
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To: SeekAndFind

So, he’s saying we should work all our lives so we can leave our estate to the government.


29 posted on 10/16/2019 9:34:52 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: SeekAndFind

Plank #3 of the communist manifesto: Abolition of rights of inheritance.


30 posted on 10/16/2019 9:35:45 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (We cannot spare this man. He fights.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Commies are sooooo greedy.


31 posted on 10/16/2019 9:38:44 AM PDT by Track9
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To: SeekAndFind

This would be called “the estate planning lawyers’ security act.”


32 posted on 10/16/2019 9:38:56 AM PDT by Mercat
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To: madison10

Except for the Clintons none of them are billionaires. Liawatha Warren want to tax the rich but only if they have a bigger pocketbook than she does.


33 posted on 10/16/2019 9:42:23 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: SeekAndFind

Pure BS!

Which is why my wife and I have an appt., this morning with our estate attorney to update and revise our estate plans, #5 change in about 30+ years.

Things change over time, and we want to make sure that our Grand kids, Church and the local Salvation Army are taken care of.

Adult children are not being disinherited, they need to see our attorney to protect what in their estates to keep the Feds and Cal Tax suckers from sucking up what is left after their high taxes for 30+ years of good earnings, investments and savings.

We are not billionaires nor multi millionaires.

My wife and I are depression babies, who started working and saving as young teenagers, and later investors in America.

President Trump’s economy has been great for our IRA’s and cash flow.

We feel that we have been taxed enough in our lives and want to legally avoid being taxed after we leave here.


34 posted on 10/16/2019 9:42:26 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (The line that separated satire, Democrats and Stupidity has vanished. (thanks to jonascord)!)
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To: SeekAndFind

So if you want your wealth to go to your descendants rather than to the federal government, you need to stash it overseas in Swiss bank accounts or other safe places.


35 posted on 10/16/2019 9:44:37 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Rocky

“The parents build a business and leave it to their children, who then have to sell off a significant portion, fatally damaging the business, in order to pay taxes. Sure, that’s fair.”

We have been seeing that disaster in friends and those we know at an increasing rate due to the ages of our friends.


36 posted on 10/16/2019 9:45:16 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (The line that separated satire, Democrats and Stupidity has vanished. (thanks to jonascord)!)
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To: Scarpetta

So why didn’t he give it to them while they were alive?


37 posted on 10/16/2019 9:45:55 AM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Frankly I would have much rather donated that money to charity where it would have actually done some good.

As it is it was off to Harrisburg to be used in the usual graft, corruption, kickbacks and cronyism that are the hallmark of this state.

I'm sure some of it went to charity.

Or at least some stripper named Charity.

38 posted on 10/16/2019 9:46:00 AM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: SeekAndFind
But if you get lucky in the lottery of life and land an inheritance

I bet these people don't feel "lucky" that their parents died.

-PJ

39 posted on 10/16/2019 9:47:01 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Isn’t the entire DEATH TAX CONCEPT WE ALREADY HAVE based on this premise?


40 posted on 10/16/2019 9:47:28 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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