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master_shake_

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Honestly I highly doubt a big fat estate tax would be done right given that most of the people writing the bill have big fat estates. The current one already has quite a few ways to evade it so you'll really only be screwing the middle class again

if you have 5 million dollars worth of crap then fine you can call it an estate.

if not then shut up.
 

jagec

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In your world the government is free to rob rich people because their kids might be shitheads?

I live in the US, where there is an estate tax. Taxes are only considered "theft" if you're using the crazy Sovereign Citizen dictionary. In which case I recommend that you really, REALLY don't live in the US. Or anywhere else in the West. Or the East. Essentially, you're limited to failed states due to a complete inability to grasp the fundamental concepts of an organized society that the Greeks hammered out thousands of years ago.
 

GagHalfrunt

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I live in the US, where there is an estate tax. Taxes are only considered "theft" if you're using the crazy Sovereign Citizen dictionary. In which case I recommend that you really, REALLY don't live in the US. Or anywhere else in the West. Or the East. Essentially, you're limited to failed states due to a complete inability to grasp the fundamental concepts of an organized society that the Greeks hammered out thousands of years ago.

LOL. how did things work out for the Greeks?
 

Nograts

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Man...I could only day dream about how much this kid probably has. It's insane. He may be a shithead, but I really don't know how much better I would be if I was born with a diamond encrusted silver spoon in my mouth.
 

Hayabusa Rider

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Man...I could only day dream about how much this kid probably has. It's insane. He may be a shithead, but I really don't know how much better I would be if I was born with a diamond encrusted silver spoon in my mouth.

Remember, he earned his wealth by his determination and hard work!

Seriously, I don't care if he has money. What I object to is that he will get away with things that others would be locked up for because of it. That's the thing which isn't right.
 

mikeymikec

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May 19, 2011
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He's not wrong. Have you seen how people behave on an airplane?

wikipedia said:
A peasant is a member of a traditional class of farmers, either laborers or owners of small farms, especially in the Middle Ages under feudalism, or more generally, in any pre-industrial society.

I think farmers from the middle ages would have quite a unique reaction to being on an aeroplane :)

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I wouldn't given him prison time. I would give him lots of community service, so he gets to experience a broad cross-section of people in a class of society that he doesn't often interact with.

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I love how they got the word "lamented" into that article. "Lament" is a great word, and in the context it screams "first world problems" :)
 
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BurnItDwn

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Hes just a spoiled/snotty dumb kid acting like a spoiled/snotty dumb kid. He may grow out of it, or he may wind up like a mini Donald Trump.