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View submission: On Rights of Inheritance - why high inheritance taxes are justified
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Comment by unguibus_et_rostro at 22/01/2020 at 16:15 UTC
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Going by your logic, why stop at inheritance? Why is it not everything belongs to the community? All of your arguments apply while the person is alive, so by your logic it should preempts inheritance, since there would be nothing to be inherited and everything belongs to the community.
On a separate point, your "basic question" specifically is rather flawed, the customers paid the business owner willingly for services/goods rendered, so why do they have still have claim to the money they paid?
Comment by lawfulneutral_ at 22/01/2020 at 18:19 UTC
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The other user already pointed out that your logic could apply to all the person’s wealth when they’re alive; but it’s also important to note that most of the reasons you give for the community having any claim to a portion of the individual’s wealth, by virtue of having provided the market and infrastructure for him to earn that wealth, are satisfied by both the multiple income taxes that were already collected on it after it was earned and the myriad of other taxes he paid in the process of earning it (property, business, employment, sales, duties, etc).
Comment by [deleted] at 22/01/2020 at 18:05 UTC
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