• redisdead@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    Why does the state, or for that matter any of y’all fuckers, be entitled to my parent’s hard work?

    They got taxed on their income all their lives. They paid property taxes all their lives. And here you are, looming over their dead bodies, still trying to get your grubby little hands in their pockets.

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      25 days ago

      This is why estate taxes only kick in at a pretty large amount. For instance the threshold for the US federal estate tax to kick in is 13,990,000 dollars and up, for 2025. For the state I live in there is no estate tax.

      If you’re up in that range and above then you can also be pretty sure that no, they did not pay the same taxes working class people do, they probably paid less.

      It’s just used as a talking point for Republicans because people like yourself don’t realize that by the time it kicks in the recipient is already set for life and people that rich probably weren’t paying their fair share into the system anyways.

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      26 days ago

      I’m not talking about you personally, I’m talking about the general idea of taxing inheritances.

      If you don’t tax it, we’ll all end up working for jeff besos grand son, for peanuts and no house.

      Also, if you get a bunch of grands, I can live with that, you got lucky, good for you. But millions? Not so much IMO.

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        26 days ago

        Jealousy is a sin. Y’all just mad people busted their asses off to improve their lives and the lives of their children while you’re sitting here whining to your cats about how it’s unfair you don’t get a share of the pie.

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          25 days ago

          So is Greed, which is the only accurate term for multi-millionaires. Though if those multi-millions come from one(1) house, that’s a different thing. Housing market is snafu.

          It isn’t really jealousy, or envious, to be more precise, to demand the rich have a higher tax burden than the working people. Everyone should be contributing their fair share of taxes, and that share gets bigger the more you get/have, as you wouldn’t even notice it being gone (unless you were a hording dragon, obsessed with every small piece)

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            25 days ago

            You talk about greedy people, and yet here you are demanding a slice of other people’s pies because you never have enough you greedy little goblin.