If someone has worked hard, took risks and created wealth why shouldn't they have the right to keep their money in their family?
The grandkids have less incentive to work hard, take risks and create wealth? Monevator (good blog) rants about this, his basic argument is that it's better to tax the dead than the living.
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We have a State and the money for it has to come from somewhere. I believe it’s better to tax unearned windfalls from the dead more heavily and the earnings of the living and productive less heavily
Once upon a time there was a tiny little Leprechaun called Coner. Conor used to get bullied and picked on by the other slightly bigger Leprechauns. One day Conor was sobbing gently to himself at the bottom of the garden when up popped a Fairy with a magic wand. "There there Conor," she said patting him on the shoulder, "I've seen those nasty Leprechauns picking on you, so to make you feel better I'm going to grant you three wishes."
"Woo Hoo" said Conor, "I want to be big and strong and the best fighter in the whole wide world"
"OK" said the Fairy looking slightly disappointed. She waved her wand and suddenly Conor turned into a 145lb man with lots of muscles and a very low body fat percentage.
"Yipeee" said Conor and he started running round the garden stomping on Leprechaun heads, ripping off limbs and throwing the lifeless bodies over the garden fence.
Once he had finished off all the little Leprechauns Conor grew in confidence and decided to test his fighting skills against some real life human beings. He started fighting in Martial Arts competitions and to his delight Conor discovered that the Humans would give him gigantic pots of gold just for beating up his opponent.
As he beat up more and more humans Conor became big headed and arrogant and swapped all his gold for fast cars, expensive suits, watches that were far too big for his skinny little wrists and tattoos of cute furry animals.
On Saturday Conor will come up against the toughest 145lb man in the world Jose Aldo. Everyone in Ireland will stay up all night to watch the fantastically loose aggressive Leprechaun test his Fairy powered skills against the nasty Brazilian. Everyone in Brazil hopes the cocky little prick will get his fucking head kicked in. Everyone else will be tuned in to watch two wonderful fighters have what should well be a completely awesome fight.
Cartel Land up on the BBC iplayer is about 2 vigilantes, one an American who should have just been left out imo and a charismatic Mexican Doctor who goes around persuading ordinary citizens to rise up and fight against the drugs cartels. Both interesting and depressing, the level of corruption and lawlessness in Mexico is incredible. Worth a watch.
You get a month for free to try it out, I accidentally signed up for it, they are getting really sneaky on that checkout page, insta cancelled and am now thinking of keeping it going.
Any one seen The Man in the High Castle on amazon? Saw a trailer and thought it looked OK. A look at what life would be like in North America if the Germans had won the war
Watched ep 1 yesterday and ep 1 Jessica Jones today and I'm going with Netflix for my next binge.
It seems like it might be some kind of clever parallel universe or fictional world kind of thing but I think I'd prefer to read the book rather than watch it if that makes any sense. Not sure it's gonna be worth ten hours or whatever to get to the payoff if there is one. But if it starts getting amazing reviews then I may come back to it.
Fargo Season 2 is a bit like Boardwalk Empire for me. Everything about it exudes quality and I like it but I feel like I should absolutely love it, but I just don't.
New X Files in January includes follow up to Home (S4E2) which is said to be the sickest hour ever on Network TV in the States. Shown once then banned it starts with a new born baby being buried alive and doesn't really get any better.
Patrick Rothfuss gets called a genius for writing like that. If you fly through it quickly it reads like a cross between Harry Potter and Jack Reacher. Reread it carefully and a little more literally and you realise that there is some really cool stuff hidden in plain sight. Perhaps the Teacher is a fan.
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