| > So the money doesn't seem to be used effectively. That's not what we're discussing. Nor is it even the country we're discussing? The Netherlands has the second highest quality of life in the world. > It almost like the tax man takes at every opportunity. Taxes are a requirement of any functional nation. This just sounds like you have no intention of having a real discussion on tax policy. > It is essentially a gift from the deceased to the beneficiaries. Yes, that is what inheritance is. And gifts are taxed. At a higher rate than inheritance! > I don't know what is fundamentally wrong with building up wealth generationally. Oh, please, don't straw man me. Nothing is wrong with generational wealth. Looking at the US, you can see how important it is for social mobility, directly affecting the outcomes of minority communities for decades to even centuries. And through systems like the private healthcare and nursing industries, how it's being targeted to extract every last cent out of American citizens before they die and can hand it off to their loved ones. But are you seriously pretending you don't know what's wrong with a forever growing wealth inequality? Because inheritance taxes only meaningfully apply to the wealthy. We aren't talking working class folk here. Are we supposed to wonder how will they ever survive on a mere €820.000 that they did nothing to earn? Despite the fact that being raised by someone with that kind of wealth statistically implies that they'll also be inheriting things like property. And that they will have a more stable upbringing with a better education and opportunities their working class peers would never get. |