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by sombremesa 1758 days ago
> Most highly industrialised, wealthy countries would have much less income inequality with vastly higher inheritance taxes.

It's true that extremely tax-heavy countries generally have poorer populations with a more even wealth distribution, but that's more or less the result of "nobody will get rich if you take everyone's money".

The vast majority of millionaires in the US are self made, so inheritance taxes couldn't possibly change that?