Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Maarten88 2956 days ago
Why, philosophically, do you think that children of wealthy parents deserve to inherit that wealth more than anyone else? Is it luck that they are born rich? Are they the reincarnation of their deseased parent? Has God decided so?

Would you also support changing the US to a monarchy? Is it different to be born into wealth than born into power?
1 comments
megaman22 2955 days ago
Because I don't believe in stealing other peoples' things just because they have them. And because I want to make sure that I am free to dispose of my property as I see fit and allow my children to reap the benefits of my labor, and the labor of the generations that have come before them, clawing our way up off of rock farms in northern New England to something better.
link
Maarten88 2954 days ago
> Because I don't believe in stealing other peoples' things just because they have them.

So that makes you a libertarian who thinks any tax is theft, and estate tax is just as bad as any other tax?

I always wonder how libertarians really think society would work, when nobody cares about anything other than themselves and their own wishes. Countries with weak governments are really not that nice to live in.

link