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This is why estate taxes should be 100%

Started by Martinus, August 21, 2012, 10:00:48 AM

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Tonitrus

Quote from: MadImmortalMan on August 21, 2012, 01:16:18 PM
It's also their right to give it to the cum parasites.

In the US, you can gift $13k tax free per year. I know because I give my mom that much every single year.  :P

Do you still have to report it?  Any limits on the amount per "transaction"?  (I thought the U.S. had some over-10k-and-the-feds-look-for-drug-money kind of thing)

Capetan Mihali

Quote from: MadImmortalMan on August 21, 2012, 03:57:04 PM
Quote from: Siege on August 21, 2012, 03:51:40 PM
Am I a neo-con?

Nah, I am a fiscal conservative, not a social conservative.

In order to be a neo-con, you must previously have been a socialistTrotskyist.

FYP
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Razgovory

Quote from: Viking on August 21, 2012, 03:56:34 PM
Quote from: Maximus on August 21, 2012, 03:08:53 PM
Quote from: Viking on August 21, 2012, 02:10:40 PM
Well ultimately all rights are about being allowed to pass ones wealth, values and philosophy on to ones children.
Elaborate. I don't think I agree, but if you can back that up I can be convinced.

The rights we cherish and identify as the important rights are not valuable in themselves. Freedom of speech only matters because speech has consequences, if speech didn't have consequences it would not matter and nobody would either bother suppressing it or fighting for its freedom.

The idea of rights we have I believe is wrong. Every right we enumerate or list or claim has been fought for historically for specific concrete reasons. Originally I thought that rights were primarily focused on life, conscience and freedom. When reading up properly (not the myth-history we get in school) on the Magna Carta it became clear that the document was fundamentally a means to prevent the King from "stealing" feudal holdings from their "rightful" owners by by legal confiscation. Tyranny win the mind of the Magnates was not killing Barons the King didn't like, Tyranny was disinheriting the killed Baron's children. The right to a trial by jury is not there because the fair trial was in and of itself a virtue, but because the unfair trial was a tool for confiscation and disinheritance.

The first rights that are established are the feudal property rights and the rights which are used to protect those property rights.

The root cause analysis is as follows, free speech is neccessary for a free election, without which our right to vote doesn't matter which is necessary for a free and sovereign parliament, without which rules and laws which protect the individual and his right to think, spend, pray, earn, eat, fuck etc. etc. are meaningless.

What is the important consequence of the right to eat and fuck?
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

MadImmortalMan

Quote from: Tonitrus on August 21, 2012, 04:04:02 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on August 21, 2012, 01:16:18 PM
It's also their right to give it to the cum parasites.

In the US, you can gift $13k tax free per year. I know because I give my mom that much every single year.  :P

Do you still have to report it?  Any limits on the amount per "transaction"?  (I thought the U.S. had some over-10k-and-the-feds-look-for-drug-money kind of thing)

I believe that any transaction over 10k is reported to...somebody. The FBI maybe. I don't think you have to report it unless you are over the limit.
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Viking

Quote from: Razgovory on August 21, 2012, 04:18:44 PM
What is the important consequence of the right to eat and fuck?

I don't consider you a serious interlocutor so I'm not going to bother answering.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Razgovory

I'll take that as "I didn't think that out as much as I thought I did".
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Maximus

I just had an image of a puppy winning his tug-of-war and doing a victory dance with the rope.

Neil

Quote from: Razgovory on August 21, 2012, 04:24:10 PM
I'll take that as "I didn't think that out as much as I thought I did".
It could just be he doesn't respect you and doesn't want to have a discussion with you.
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

Razgovory

Quote from: Neil on August 21, 2012, 04:41:01 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on August 21, 2012, 04:24:10 PM
I'll take that as "I didn't think that out as much as I thought I did".
It could just be he doesn't respect you and doesn't want to have a discussion with you.

Yes, that is true.  I'm sure he doesn't.  He's made it clear he doesn't respect people he disagrees with.  He's said that before.  But Viking would answer (as he has in other threads today), if he had a good answer.  He doesn't, so he retreats into Grumblerism.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

garbon

Quote from: Viking on August 21, 2012, 04:20:39 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on August 21, 2012, 04:18:44 PM
What is the important consequence of the right to eat and fuck?

I don't consider you a serious interlocutor so I'm not going to bother answering.

So what about the Barons who wanted their rights enshrined so that they didn't have to worry about being dispossessed during their own lifetimes?
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Barrister

Quote from: MadImmortalMan on August 21, 2012, 04:20:35 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on August 21, 2012, 04:04:02 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on August 21, 2012, 01:16:18 PM
It's also their right to give it to the cum parasites.

In the US, you can gift $13k tax free per year. I know because I give my mom that much every single year.  :P

Do you still have to report it?  Any limits on the amount per "transaction"?  (I thought the U.S. had some over-10k-and-the-feds-look-for-drug-money kind of thing)

I believe that any transaction over 10k is reported to...somebody. The FBI maybe. I don't think you have to report it unless you are over the limit.

UP here we report transactions over $10k to FINTRAC.
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

Viking

Quote from: garbon on August 21, 2012, 04:52:41 PM
Quote from: Viking on August 21, 2012, 04:20:39 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on August 21, 2012, 04:18:44 PM
What is the important consequence of the right to eat and fuck?

I don't consider you a serious interlocutor so I'm not going to bother answering.

So what about the Barons who wanted their rights enshrined so that they didn't have to worry about being dispossessed during their own lifetimes?

Well, when given the choice they did choose to confess lesser capital crimes to avoid the treason charge which permitted the king to disinherit.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

The Minsky Moment

Quote from: Viking on August 21, 2012, 03:56:34 PM
The first rights that are established are the feudal property rights and the rights which are used to protect those property rights.

Legally enforcable property rights predate feudalism
By a very long time.
But hey fun riff.
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson

Viking

Quote from: The Minsky Moment on August 21, 2012, 05:41:05 PM
Quote from: Viking on August 21, 2012, 03:56:34 PM
The first rights that are established are the feudal property rights and the rights which are used to protect those property rights.

Legally enforcable property rights predate feudalism
By a very long time.
But hey fun riff.

I must have missed the bit where Roman Patricians kept their land during the barbarian conquest without some quid pro quo vis a vis the conquerors.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

The Minsky Moment

Quote from: Viking on August 21, 2012, 05:43:02 PM
I must have missed the bit where Roman Patricians kept their land during the barbarian conquest without some quid pro quo vis a vis the conquerors.

The point eludes me.

Your claim is that feudal property rights are the "first rights to be established"
Which is off to begin with because in a sense there is no such thing as feudal property rights at all; "feudalism" in the ideal typology refers to a system where control over property stems from personal relationships whose contractual nature is not enforceable by law.  Magna Carta wasn't generated until the post-feudal age is well udnerway (indeed that is in part why it arises.)

If your argument that rights aren't really rights if at some point in past, present or future their integrity holds only because of some explicit or implicit quid quo pro involving a powerful actor, than there aren't and have never been any such thing.

If your argument is something else, it isn't clear.
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson