Taxes

There will always be taxes and death, the only way to escape the 1st is to do the 2nd.



Or you can bitch about them both.

You can also be taxed to death.

...and after death there is the estate tax...

cydl wrote: ...and after death there is the estate tax...

Our government for the people and by the people needs to be feed or it may suffer death too.

Death doesn't free you from taxes, ask estate planners.

I did read a Forsyth short story where a English millionaire cheated his heirs and the goverment by pretending that his burial at sea secretly included gold bars.

Instead the money went to orphans instead of the British IRS.

I think the author was getting a little written revenge on the punitive British tax system.

cydl wrote: ...and after death there is the estate tax...

Forgot about that one. I'm surprised the left hasn't proposed a cash hoarding tax for those people who stockpile money in banks and don't spend it. Greedy bastards!

CriticalBill wrote:

cydl wrote: ...and after death there is the estate tax...

Forgot about that one. I'm surprised the left hasn't proposed a cash hoarding tax for those people who stockpile money in banks and don't spend it. Greedy bastards!

Yes, how dare they save and not share <dripping sarcasm>

Rockdoc Franz wrote:

CriticalBill wrote:

cydl wrote: ...and after death there is the estate tax...

Forgot about that one. I'm surprised the left hasn't proposed a cash hoarding tax for those people who stockpile money in banks and don't spend it. Greedy bastards!

Yes, how dare they save and not share <dripping sarcasm>

Oh come on....it's bad enough one poster makes up a straw man argument....then another takes it an gets snarky over it. No wonder nothing ever gets discussed around here.

archer wrote:

Rockdoc Franz wrote:

CriticalBill wrote:

cydl wrote: ...and after death there is the estate tax...

Forgot about that one. I'm surprised the left hasn't proposed a cash hoarding tax for those people who stockpile money in banks and don't spend it. Greedy bastards!

Yes, how dare they save and not share <dripping sarcasm>

Oh come on....it's bad enough one poster makes up a straw man argument....then another takes it an gets snarky over it. No wonder nothing ever gets discussed around here.

You know archer, sometimes you need to just relax. You really don't have to be serious all the time....if you can't figure out what sarcasm is, I can't help you. And is it really that far fetched a concept since a guy can work his whole life to give his kids a better life, then when he dies, half of his hard work goes to the government and not the kids it was intended for?

cydl wrote: ...and after death there is the estate tax...

Only for those estates with a gross value of over $5 million.