No making jokes that involve a crazy Matt Barnes because there was a history of domestic violence, but encouraging Fisher to lie in wait and shoot in with a shotgun is cool!

This is one of the most misleading post titles ever. He really only ruled that you can’t do it openly in public because it’s breaking the law, which, duh. You can have all the swinging sex parties you want, just not in a hotel lobby.

Yes, if my parents both die tomorrow I’m sure I’ll really enjoy that extra spending money. My entitled parent-less ass will be really happy then!

“Yeah, sorry, I have no defense of my position any more so I’m going to make up insults like “entitled ass” to call you because I have no ideas on how to continue arguing my position”

The article you are linking to is talking primarily about Europe (and fictional TV shows), specifically France, and then says America hasn’t really followed the same pattern. The whole first paragraph is talking about the middle class, which is meaningless when talking about the estate tax here, since the tax is…

Also noted in your reply, absolutely no explanation as to how a family with $10 million dollars is harmful to society.

Sure don’t. If both my parents died I’m sure I’d get a decent sum of money, but it would not be close to reaching the exemption level we’re talking about. A luxury spending tax would be extremely easy to implement.

“Generational wealth on that scale is not a good thing, and having an estate tax is a social good.”

The only reasonable response to getting an invoice in the mail for not going and eating their walleye dinner is to buy 2 walleye and give them back to the happy couple by hiding them somewhere in the house while they are on their honeymoon.

I think those situations are handled much better through taxes on extravagant spending, rather than trying to find rules to effect very specific situations that they can’t find loopholes around.

That’s the theory, but not how it works. Most very rich have a ton of people doing estate planning to avoid paying the tax in the first place. Also, a very significant amount of uber rich lose most/all of their wealth through generations.

It does have a high exemption on the federal level. The super rich is not who it impacts though, as they have people that do a good job estate planning to avoid these taxes.

Except that’s not true. The estate tax is re-taxing a single person’s income that they’ve already earned and paid income tax on. It is one person/estate that is taxed not the recipients. It’s basically a second income tax, though one with a very large exemption.

That’s true at the federal level, though not at the state level depending on where you live. I suppose Trump would only be talking about the federal version, which I should have taken into consideration in my post, but I still think the concept in general is bad.

While I get what you’re saying, the estate tax is complete horseshit and needs to be removed. It’s re-taxing income that has already had tax paid on it. It serves no logical purpose given how other taxes operate other than just trying to find something to generate more revenue to make up for over-spending. Oh, someone…

Unintentional, but now thoroughly happy about it.

His? Is that supposed to be a dude?

Shitbags can do good things sometimes. They are still overall shitbags, they just accomplished some positive things too. Obama seems like a good dude though, even if some of the things he does are stupid.

Seconded. I’m 6’7 and not even close to skinny. I lived in China for 3 months and used a shower that appeared to be designed for a 12 year old. I could not stand up straight ever and extending both elbows at the same time was not possible. I dried off in the shower every time and my tower never got wet from the walls.

Agreed. This one was super choppy. Enough so that I had to verify that I wasn’t experiencing bandwith/buffering problems, but I definitely wasn’t. Never had that happen with one of these before.