• frog 🐸@beehaw.org
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    8 months ago

    ‘Is money a birthright now?’

    If it’s not, then logically a 100% inheritance tax must be imposed. After all, nobody is entitled to money just for being born, right?

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      8 months ago

      In that case, I would burn all my money rather than pay it in taxes before I died. Just put every single penny you have into Bitcoin or something and then purposely delete the private keys.

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          8 months ago

          Because I don’t really know of any charities that I would support, but I could support some sort of open source software, I guess, like donate everything to fdroid, or something.

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            8 months ago

            FOSS related: The Free Software Foundation, The Software Freedom Conservency, The Software Freedom Law Center, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (aka the EFF), Debian, the Mozilla Foundation, the Document Foundation (aka Libreoffice)…

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        In the long run, nearly the same effect as 100% inheritance tax anyways.

        The government won’t know the cash has been removed from the economy, but it’ll have been removed all the same.