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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: Verginius Rufus

RE: you need to stash it overseas in Swiss bank accounts or other safe places.

Swiss Bank accounts aren’t private any longer when it comes to the IRS. The USA has succeeded in bullying the Swiss into revealing who their clients are.


61 posted on 10/16/2019 10:44:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: SeekAndFind

Whether or not kids can spare some of their inheritance is irrelevant. It’s not ours to redistribute. That inheritance is the private property of the parents and those parents have a right to pass it on as they see fit. Bernie, the Annoying Oblivious-Commie, and the rest currently have no legal right and will never have a moral right to steal that property.


62 posted on 10/16/2019 10:48:42 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: SeekAndFind

Let’s start with whatever assets Henry has.


63 posted on 10/16/2019 10:52:57 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: SeekAndFind

Let’s start with liberal trust fund babies


64 posted on 10/16/2019 10:54:40 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: GOPe Means Bend Over Spell Run

This is nothing more than covetousness writ large.

Read James 4:1.


65 posted on 10/16/2019 10:59:27 AM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The owners of the Slime need to liquidate their assets and send all their money to me—reparations for their decades of lying and propaganda.

That is what I call _fairness_.


66 posted on 10/16/2019 11:03:38 AM PDT by cgbg (Vote Trump or you will _be_ Trump)
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To: Billthedrill

Wonder if Mr. Aaron is willing to hand over som of his ill-gotten cash my way; after all it is only fair I am a widow living on $750 a month.

Fork it over bub.

(Wonder what his response would be if someone were to use that argument against him?)


67 posted on 10/16/2019 11:05:28 AM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites.)
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To: Grampa Dave

From the article:

“If inheritances above $1 million were included and the minimum tax rate was 40 percent, the yield would be nearly $1 trillion.”

Not going to happen. This would blow up California. California liberals would never go for this. Neither would New York liberals, etc..


68 posted on 10/16/2019 11:08:51 AM PDT by EVO X
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To: KC_Conspirator
We shall take fruits of your hard work and your families hard work that you want to pass on to your family....

And, We shall do so because we are Thieves by nature, knowing no other course in life but to live off of others...

69 posted on 10/16/2019 11:10:57 AM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

and that the donor has already paid income taxes.....


70 posted on 10/16/2019 11:11:46 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: SeekAndFind

New York Times should give up all their assets considered the quality of their reporting. Just give it up!


71 posted on 10/16/2019 11:13:48 AM PDT by richardtavor
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To: SeekAndFind

Here’s an idea: stop stealing money from Americans.


72 posted on 10/16/2019 11:15:38 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: SeekAndFind
Good to know about Swiss bank accounts.

So I guess the place to stash money will be Ukraine. After Trump is impeached, no one will ever dare to investigate in Ukraine again.

73 posted on 10/16/2019 11:26:08 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: KC Burke
"We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men’s labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name — liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names — liberty and tyranny."

- Abraham Lincoln

74 posted on 10/16/2019 11:35:57 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: ConservativeDude

Actually that is the one phrase in the whole article that actually made sense to me. I was lucky enough to be born to parents wealthy enough to pay my college tuition. A friend of mine who was born to poorer parents had to take out loans. I do not see that I did anything better than my friend (in many ways he is a smarter and better person than I am) yet I escaped a lifetime of indebtedness while he is still barely getting by because of those loans. Before you ask, his degree is in chemistry, not something like underwater basket weaving.

I am opposed to the estate tax, death tax, inheritance tax, whatever you want to call it, in all its forms. But let’s not kid ourselves into believing that everyone was dealt the same cards in life.


75 posted on 10/16/2019 11:54:52 AM PDT by FormerFRLurker (Keep calm and vote your conscience.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

If you own property in pa they will get you even if you did in Ohio.


76 posted on 10/16/2019 12:06:52 PM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: SeekAndFind

Why should anyone have the right to inherit any money or other wealth? Why not just set a fixed amount of legal inheritance based on “privilege”? Sarc.


77 posted on 10/16/2019 12:09:25 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: G Larry

I challenge the idea that wealth comes from luck. Somewhere at sometime a lot of hard work and original ideas were likely at play.


78 posted on 10/16/2019 12:11:24 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Lead By Example, Mr Times.


79 posted on 10/16/2019 3:06:22 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-)
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To: SeekAndFind

Leftists are perpetually angry and jealous about anyone who is doing better than they are.


80 posted on 10/16/2019 3:09:12 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 ( "Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves”)
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