[ExI] Terraforming Earth

[Dave Sill]

On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 7:35 PM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Which brings up the issue of estate taxes:  Rockefeller's money is still
> around.  Why should his heirs get all that money for having done nothing?
>

Um, because he willed/bequeathed it to them?


>   Let the money go to people who will do something new with it.
>

"Let" it? How do you that? Confiscate it and redistribute it? Who decides
who gets some? And why stop with the money? What about real estate,
businesses, etc? Shouldn't they also go to more deserving people than heirs?

-Dave
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