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Re:Who died and left the US $7B? by MisterBastahrd on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @06:01PM (#41793165)
Citizens are taxed as individuals, not families. A person did not have assets, and now they do. I don't care that the land was "in their family." If they are even decent at managing their assets, then they will have more assets when they die than when their parents did. And if they don't, then it's not my concern. I don't believe in government policies to perpetuate generational capital wealth, and I will vote against them as long as we have a system where money can be used to influence the government.
Re:Who died and left the US $7B? by lazide on Thursday October 10, 2024 @02:25AM (#41796112)
This is the ‘fuck anyone trying to pass anything to their children’ element which most parents will (rightly) got WTF at.
Re:Who died and left the US $7B? by SR2Z on Thursday October 10, 2024 @09:11AM (#41798448)
The exemption is several million dollars.

I don't mind if people get mad when anything more than that is taxed.

Re:Who died and left the US $7B? by lazide on Friday October 11, 2024 @01:15AM (#41806391)
That is not what the prior comment I was addressing said. Maybe implied, but that’s different.
Re:Who died and left the US $7B? by MisterBastahrd on Thursday October 10, 2024 @10:35AM (#41799266)
Yeah, I'm sure the 1% of people this actually affects will be really big mad and stuff.
Re:Who died and left the US $7B? by _bin_ on Sunday October 13, 2024 @04:22AM (#41826154)
Wrong, we literally double everything in our tax code so that spouses can file jointly.