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What should be the estate tax rate?

Assume $4 million exemption in place
''"'''"''"''''"''
  11/15/25
0 for estates up to 100mm
Covid was a Hoax
  11/15/25
All taxes shld be zero except maybe 5% for income and 5% sal...
AZNgirl Raping Taj Mahal because it's White
  11/15/25
lol
Creator and Destroyer of sexually traumatized boys
  11/15/25
50% plus a 200% tax on any fees paid to advisors to reduce o...
.,....;...,.:...;...,....
  11/15/25
100%. When both John Rawls and Ayn Rand agree about somethin...
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Rand was born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum on February 2, 1905...
Covid was a Hoax
  11/15/25
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ethereal \\(> ' v ' <)// tp
  11/15/25
the hardest park of an estate tax is exemptions for shit lik...
Creator and Destroyer of sexually traumatized boys
  11/15/25
oh wow someone took a public policy class 30 years ago. farm...
Covid was a Hoax
  11/15/25
You're a fucking moron
Doordasher
  11/15/25
great counterargument doordasher tp
Creator and Destroyer of sexually traumatized boys
  11/15/25
Well the thread is about estate tax and you go off and descr...
Doordasher
  11/15/25
ljl you hair splitting queer you have nothing intelligent to...
Creator and Destroyer of sexually traumatized boys
  11/15/25
no u
Doordasher
  11/15/25
i'm done subsidizing "family farms". fuck those fu...
Bill Paxton and Paul Reiser in ALIENS
  11/15/25
it's not a subsidy. im proposing a major tax increase with c...
Creator and Destroyer of sexually traumatized boys
  11/15/25
I’ve got some bad news for you about America’s f...
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  11/16/25
It's almost Lol funny that people still cite the farmland ex...
........,,,,,,......,.,.,.,,,,,,,,,,
  11/15/25
there's so much retarded shit we subsidize based on the publ...
Bill Paxton and Paul Reiser in ALIENS
  11/15/25
It should be the same as income taxes, if not higher. Se...
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100%. let rsf earn his money. the future generation's right ...
theranchman
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Creator and Destroyer of sexually traumatized boys
  11/15/25
0%. There is no rationale for an estate tax of any kind. The...
sniggley
  11/15/25
You're Jewish right? Keeping the estate tax low is essential...
''"'''"''"''''"''
  11/16/25
As they say, “the best way to fight Jewish economic he...
sniggley
  11/16/25
(guy who didn't "get" Monopoly)
theranchman
  11/16/25
What's the argument for allowing inheritance?
https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK
  11/16/25
There’s zero positive externalities to inheritance tax...
sniggley
  11/16/25
I love the useful idiot argument “why bother taxing th...
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  11/16/25
TITCR
samoth
  11/16/25
0 because now people just do trusts to avoid it anyway, whic...
Ass Sunstein
  11/15/25
How do trusts cause problems?
''"'''"''"''''"''
  11/16/25
they provide a means to multiple ends many of the multiple ...
sealclubber
  11/16/25
Regardless of how you feel about the estate tax, can we all ...
.,.,,...,...,..,....,...,...,...
  11/15/25
Yes other countries don't have this magical cost basis chang...
Louis Poasteur
  11/16/25
This is an obvious change that should be made and it would b...
Megathor lives!
  11/16/25
i'd like to hear arguments for the other side, but i agree
sealclubber
  11/16/25
110%
Fournier's Gangrene
  11/16/25
it should be mobile and change depending on number of childr...
VoteRepublican
  11/16/25


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Date: November 15th, 2025 11:55 AM
Author: ''"'''"''"''''"''

Assume $4 million exemption in place

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49432994)



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Date: November 15th, 2025 11:57 AM
Author: Covid was a Hoax

0 for estates up to 100mm

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49432997)



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Date: November 15th, 2025 11:59 AM
Author: AZNgirl Raping Taj Mahal because it's White

All taxes shld be zero except maybe 5% for income and 5% sales

That's it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49433005)



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Date: November 15th, 2025 12:26 PM
Author: Creator and Destroyer of sexually traumatized boys (gunneratttt)

lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49433039)



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Date: November 15th, 2025 12:00 PM
Author: .,....;...,.:...;...,....


50% plus a 200% tax on any fees paid to advisors to reduce or avoid it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49433007)



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Date: November 15th, 2025 12:18 PM
Author: .,.,,...,...,..,....,...,...,...


100%. When both John Rawls and Ayn Rand agree about something, they are probably right.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49433032)



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Date: November 15th, 2025 12:30 PM
Author: Covid was a Hoax

Rand was born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum on February 2, 1905, into a Jewish bourgeois family living in Saint Petersburg, which was then the capital of the Russian Empire.[7] She was the eldest of three daughters of Zinovy Zakharovich Rosenbaum, a pharmacist, and Anna Borisovna (née Kaplan).[8] She was 12 when the October Revolution and the rule of the Bolsheviks under Vladimir Lenin disrupted her family's lives. Her father's pharmacy was nationalized,[9] and the family fled to Yevpatoria in Crimea, which was initially under the control of the White Army during the Russian Civil War.[10] After graduating from high school there in June 1921,[11] she returned with her family to Petrograd, as Saint Petersburg was then named,[e] where they faced desperate conditions, occasionally nearly starving.[13]



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49433045)



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Date: November 15th, 2025 4:25 PM
Author: ethereal \\(> ' v ' <)// tp



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49433644)



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Date: November 15th, 2025 12:30 PM
Author: Creator and Destroyer of sexually traumatized boys (gunneratttt)

the hardest park of an estate tax is exemptions for shit like farms that are worth a lot but don't generate a ton of money. also bona fide family heirlooms.

putting that stuff aside, per child: $0-$5m tax free, $5m - $20m income tax rate rate, $20m+ 100%.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49433046)



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Date: November 15th, 2025 12:40 PM
Author: Covid was a Hoax

oh wow someone took a public policy class 30 years ago. farms that dont generate money.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49433067)



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Date: November 15th, 2025 4:57 PM
Author: Doordasher

You're a fucking moron

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49433737)



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Date: November 15th, 2025 5:00 PM
Author: Creator and Destroyer of sexually traumatized boys (gunneratttt)

great counterargument doordasher tp

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49433753)



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Date: November 15th, 2025 6:26 PM
Author: Doordasher

Well the thread is about estate tax and you go off and describe an inheritance tax.

Very low IQ behavior IMO.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49434061)



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Date: November 15th, 2025 6:53 PM
Author: Creator and Destroyer of sexually traumatized boys (gunneratttt)

ljl you hair splitting queer you have nothing intelligent to contribute. just drive by midwit insults

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49434125)



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Date: November 15th, 2025 6:55 PM
Author: Doordasher

no u

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49434129)



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Date: November 15th, 2025 6:58 PM
Author: Bill Paxton and Paul Reiser in ALIENS

i'm done subsidizing "family farms". fuck those fucking faggots

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49434137)



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Date: November 15th, 2025 7:28 PM
Author: Creator and Destroyer of sexually traumatized boys (gunneratttt)

it's not a subsidy. im proposing a major tax increase with carve outs so gc doesnt turn bona fide family farms into sheetrock condos when the patriarch dies.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49434218)



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Date: November 16th, 2025 11:33 AM
Author: ,..,,,,,,....,,,...,

I’ve got some bad news for you about America’s family farms. But yes, let’s write a tax policy that coincidentally aligns with the interests of our most loathsome capitalists based on the hypothetical needs of a family that owns a small $10M farm with no cashflow, so they can keep running it for generations of ever more feckless heirs. That’s how we structure a vibrant economy and solve problems like housing affordability.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49435417)



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Date: November 15th, 2025 6:37 PM
Author: ........,,,,,,......,.,.,.,,,,,,,,,,


It's almost Lol funny that people still cite the farmland example, which they've done for 50 years.

In 50 years no one has thought, "Oh what if we put in the bill that you could pass 1,000 acres to farmland tax free to any descendent who worked that farmland more than 500 hours in their lifetime."

Instead everyone just throws their hands up and says "It's impossible - guess we should just let people inherit vast sums of wealth untaxed."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49434083)



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Date: November 15th, 2025 6:59 PM
Author: Bill Paxton and Paul Reiser in ALIENS

there's so much retarded shit we subsidize based on the public romanticizing small yeoman farmers. fuck them, it's a bad way to run society.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49434138)



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Date: November 15th, 2025 6:39 PM
Author: ........,,,,,,......,.,.,.,,,,,,,,,,


It should be the same as income taxes, if not higher.

Seems antithetical to America that we tax a schoolteacher making $50,000 a year but not a kid who gets a $3 mm inheritance.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49434091)



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Date: November 15th, 2025 7:01 PM
Author: theranchman

100%. let rsf earn his money. the future generation's right to meritocracy exceeds the current generation's entitlement to pass on wealth

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49434143)



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Date: November 15th, 2025 7:44 PM
Author: Creator and Destroyer of sexually traumatized boys (gunneratttt)



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49434272)



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Date: November 15th, 2025 8:51 PM
Author: sniggley

0%. There is no rationale for an estate tax of any kind. The only people who want it are either (1) bitter and jealous of someone benefitting from their family success, or (2) retarded policy “wonks” who want to redistribute wealth to adhere to their personal views of “fairness” and “earning” something.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49434453)



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Date: November 16th, 2025 1:04 AM
Author: ''"'''"''"''''"''

You're Jewish right? Keeping the estate tax low is essential to maintaining Jewish power.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49434914)



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Date: November 16th, 2025 8:45 AM
Author: sniggley

As they say, “the best way to fight Jewish economic hegemony is to systematically expropriate everyone’s wealth and funnel it into Israel and minority gibs.”



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49435152)



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Date: November 16th, 2025 11:22 AM
Author: theranchman

(guy who didn't "get" Monopoly)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49435399)



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Date: November 16th, 2025 12:18 PM
Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK


What's the argument for allowing inheritance?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49435505)



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Date: November 16th, 2025 2:02 PM
Author: sniggley

There’s zero positive externalities to inheritance taxes; they aren’t effective at inhibiting dynasties and they don’t generate enough money to finance government. Inheritance taxes are anti individual meritocracy. By inhibiting the transfer of wealth between generations via property and money, you incentivize tribalistic croneyism and collusion. See for example the revolutions in China and Cuba, where 100% of wealth was expropriated from the elites but the elites’ descendants were back to being the elites again within one or two generations.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49435805)



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Date: November 16th, 2025 4:36 PM
Author: ,..,,,,,,....,,,...,

I love the useful idiot argument “why bother taxing the rich? it won’t raise very much money.” Strangely the same argument is never applied for my benefit as a working loser, although I’m pretty sure the taxes I pay are also insufficient to fund the entire government.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49436098)



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Date: November 16th, 2025 2:26 PM
Author: samoth

TITCR

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49435840)



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Date: November 15th, 2025 8:53 PM
Author: Ass Sunstein

0 because now people just do trusts to avoid it anyway, which causes a lot of societal problems.

It would be better to just pass down cash directly and not have trusts. And if the heirs are retarded and blow all the cash, that's actually a good thing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49434467)



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Date: November 16th, 2025 1:05 AM
Author: ''"'''"''"''''"''

How do trusts cause problems?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49434915)



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Date: November 16th, 2025 4:44 PM
Author: sealclubber

they provide a means to multiple ends

many of the multiple ends are things that could be done in different ways

many are things that don't benefit society

tax avoidance, secrecy, deadhand control, probate avoidance

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49436128)



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Date: November 15th, 2025 9:50 PM
Author: .,.,,...,...,..,....,...,...,...


Regardless of how you feel about the estate tax, can we all agree that the step up in cost basis is completely moronic and serves no rational purpose other than to make the RSF's of the world even richer? If you don't want to sell your family farm or business, fine, there is no tax liability. But we shouldn't allow billionaires to borrow against their assets until they die and then let their kids avoid all the capital gains taxes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49434605)



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Date: November 16th, 2025 8:51 AM
Author: Louis Poasteur

Yes other countries don't have this magical cost basis change upon death, it doesn't really make sense in this day and age when cost basis is quite trackable

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49435159)



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Date: November 16th, 2025 9:14 AM
Author: Megathor lives!

This is an obvious change that should be made and it would be very simple to track and implement. Stepped up basis is a huge scam

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49435179)



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Date: November 16th, 2025 4:49 PM
Author: sealclubber

i'd like to hear arguments for the other side, but i agree

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49436149)



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Date: November 16th, 2025 5:19 AM
Author: Fournier's Gangrene

110%

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49435007)



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Date: November 16th, 2025 6:04 AM
Author: VoteRepublican (A true Chad!! where's your gf/wifew?)

it should be mobile and change depending on number of children the inheritance is split in practice and on average theoretically so nobody can be royalty

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798433&forum_id=2).#49435029)