[ExI] Terraforming Earth

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 8 17:36:55 UTC 2017


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

yes   bill w

On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 8:22 AM, Dave Sill <sparge at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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