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What that means is inheritance, investments, sudden windfalls of $1 million will now only get you about $600,00. It's a small increase from what it was but it's now enough to ensure that you will NEVER retire from a lump sum amount of $1 million ($1 million goes very fast). You will need $2 million for a middle age adult to retire. $5 million for the same adult to retire comfortably. About $7 million for someone in their 20s to do the same. Meanwhile, those who earn that much or more regularly will continue to use the same tax loopholes to avoid paying taxes. It leaves them alone and squeezes middle class and prevents you from climbing the income ladder. And the stock market dropped because of this. I wonder why? It's because the smart upper class investors are shuffling assets to avoid it and the middle class... well, they don't have the money to buy in the dip. Bitcoin lost like, what, $8000 overnight? AND PEOPLE ARE PRAISING THIS. If they wanted real change, the tax laws need to be completely revamped. But that's not what it's about. But keep dreaming of that free housing, free college, free whatever, yo. All you're doing when you support this kind of crap is destroy yourself.

For more investment advice and political insights, don't follow me.

What that means is inheritance, investments, sudden windfalls of $1 million will now only get you about $600,00. It's a small increase from what it was but it's now enough to ensure that you will NEVER retire from a lump sum amount of $1 million ($1 million goes very fast). You will need $2 million for a middle age adult to retire. $5 million for the same adult to retire comfortably. About $7 million for someone in their 20s to do the same. Meanwhile, those who earn that much or more regularly will continue to use the same tax loopholes to avoid paying taxes. It leaves them alone and squeezes middle class and prevents you from climbing the income ladder. And the stock market dropped because of this. I wonder why? It's because the smart upper class investors are shuffling assets to avoid it and the middle class... well, they don't have the money to buy in the dip. Bitcoin lost like, what, $8000 overnight? AND PEOPLE ARE PRAISING THIS. If they wanted real change, the tax laws need to be completely revamped. But that's not what it's about. But keep dreaming of that free housing, free college, free whatever, yo. All you're doing when you support this kind of crap is destroy yourself. For more investment advice and political insights, don't follow me.

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Not even gonna address anything else because there's no point once you said this:

That's quite an assumption about my attitude. Trust fund kids have no natural right to that money

Not your money, not your right. Their money, their right. Complain about your own life, not someone else's. Until you can deal with the envy you can't control, there's no point in discussing any of this with you.

[–] CDanger 3 points (+3|-0)

You have no right to land or a house. It's the King's land, not yours. You need to complain about your own life, not someone else's. That's what 15th century law would tell you.

What you seem to be missing here--in addition to getting almost all the facts wrong about how the tax system works--is that property rights exist within a legal system, and there are lots of ways that that system can be configured, some useful for a healthy society and some not. Saying it is "theirs" does nothing to establish whether a tax policy is good or bad. Indeed now the money is theirs--after they get taxed on it.

Unrestricted hereditary rule is definitely bad. Unrestricted wealth confiscation is definitely bad. There are lots of policy choices between those two extremes to chose from, and it's not worth taking it so personal that nearly everyone sees the reasons why it is healthy for inheritances to be taxed.

Unrestricted wealth confiscation is definitely bad

Says the dude who supports wealth confiscation.

Seriously, come on. I want to have a serious discussion with you. I'd really like to. But this idea that people have no right to have anything given to them or that they earned is absurd.

[–] CDanger 2 points (+2|-0)

But this idea that people have no right to have anything given to them or that they earned is absurd.

We might be past the point of getting a beneficial discussion out of this, but I never said that or anything even resembling that. It's not even what we were talking about.