macgamer wrote:Burial of the dead is the seventh Corporal Act of Mercy. This is an act which almost all cultures share.
A head stone is a memorial to the burial of the dead person and links into seventh Spiritual Act of Mercy: prayer for the living and the dead. Although this latter point depends on belief in an immortal soul.
The state should facilitate this; taxes are an obstruction.
Gubbins wrote:Senethro wrote:94% of estates don't pay inheritance tax. The ones that do can clearly afford to.
Many of these families can't realistically afford the tax, as their wealth is tied up in their own property - which is usually heavily mortgaged. This results in the sale of many families' houses: I have personally witnessed the combined problem of high house prices and inheritance tax change one rural village into a commuter suburb for London. It's not just a question of whether people can find the means to pay.
Gubbins wrote:You talk about these "rich people". 10% is still a large percentage of the population - it's not all yahs. As a St. Andrews graduate, there's a good chance you'll end up being among them.
Haunted wrote:Wouldn't bother me. In fact it's quite nice to think I could one day live as comfortably.
Haunted wrote:Besides who paid for my education to put me in a position to acquire such wealth?
RedCelt69 wrote: * Such people have a tendency to vote Conservative.
Senethro wrote:94% of estates don't pay inheritance tax. The ones that do can clearly afford to.
So fuck you duggeh, redistribution is awesome
same guest wrote:It is, in my opinion, a "jealousy tax"
RedCelt69 wrote:It shouldn't matter whether an inheritance tax would or would not affect you as an individual. Uppermost should be the concern of whether, on the whole, it serves the best interests of the wider population.
LonelyPilgrim wrote:If you want policies that are designed, from scratch, to be of greatest benefit to the people as a whole then you need a good ol' enlightened despotism.
Senethro wrote:When democracy fails, you can count on Stalin!
exnihilo wrote:Am I being really stupid? IHT? What's the H stand for? Or are we talking about In Heritance Tax?
exnihilo wrote:That it is widely used, or accepted, is irrelevant to my point - there's no H. So the 1986 "rebranding" to Inheritance Tax/IHT was stupid. At least when it was Capital Transfer Tax or Estate Duty the abbreviation (not acronym) actually represented the words, unless some civil servant/politician somewhere things it is "In Heritance", which wouldn't surprise me in the least.
exnihilo wrote:You'll be wanting to check that, there is no sense in which CTT is an acronym.
Thalia wrote:in the strictist sense an acronym is an abbreviation of initial letters that forms a word of its own
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