[sidewndr46]

can't this be summed up as lots of countries have laws (or historically had) against establishing perpetual trusts? It'd be trivial for someone like Gates to set up a trust that pays out to all his heirs indefinitely without them being able to directly extract the assets of the trust. If it were legal.

[creer]

I don't think so. Doubling money in 10 years, on average, is nothing extraordinary. It's a little sub-par. Far more in some 10 years, less in others, sure. But doubling in 10 years.

So even a 50% inheritance tax, erm, "haircut", should be recovered in 10 years and clearly beaten after that by the next generation.

IF that was the only issue. It's not the only issue.