Paradox - Estate Tax and Reparations

[Berzerker]

One arguement for slavery reparations is that slaves could not pass along accumulated wealth to their descendents putting them at a disadvantage. Succeeding generations had a smaller or non-existent wealth base than the descendents of non-slaves who could inherit accumulated wealth. Is it not a paradox for people who make this arguement to want the elimination of inheritance with the state taking our wealth upon death or taxing estates even more heavily?

Or is this apparent paradox fictional since those on the left who make this arguement wrt reparations actually like the fact descendents of slaves had nothing to start out with and their complaint is that other people should have been treated like the descendents of slaves, i.e., the state should place us all in the position of coming out of slavery?

[monkspider]

We should pay reparations to everyone.

[Berzerker]

Let's make it simpler, no one pays reparations.

[monkspider]

Originally posted by Berzerker
Let's make it simpler, no one pays reparations.

What about everyone who is starving in China because you won't reparate them?

[Berzerker]

How are they to "reparate" me since you want everyone to pay reparations?

[Berzerker]

Or by "we" did you mean one group reparating everyone else?

[Q Classic]

how 'bout we just kill everyone with zyklon b and skip the entire reparations bidness?

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Hmmm...

I wonder if Shirley McClane could claim reparations for one of her past lives, made payable with interest.

[Kidlicious]

Re: Paradox - Estate Tax and Reparations

Originally posted by Berzerker
One arguement for slavery reparations is that slaves could not pass along accumulated wealth to their descendents putting them at a disadvantage. Succeeding generations had a smaller or non-existent wealth base than the descendents of non-slaves who could inherit accumulated wealth. Is it not a paradox for people who make this arguement to want the elimination of inheritance with the state taking our wealth upon death or taxing estates even more heavily?

Or is this apparent paradox fictional since those on the left who make this arguement wrt reparations actually like the fact descendents of slaves had nothing to start out with and their complaint is that other people should have been treated like the descendents of slaves, i.e., the state should place us all in the position of coming out of slavery?

I don't see any paradox.

[Agathon]

Yet another "let's beat up on the blacks because they aren't already on their knees" thread.

[Q Classic]

why should i have to pay for something my ancestors had no part of? indeed, probably suffered a bit from?

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Q Cubed
why should i have to pay for something my ancestors had no part of? indeed, probably suffered a bit from?

If your grandparents stole something and then passed it down to you, are you entitled to keep it, just because you didn't steal it yourself?

That's roughly the argument.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

No I actually think its a "State should not be grabbing the inheritance" thread.

[Q Classic]

except, see, my grandparents didn't enslave any of the blacks. i wasn't given anything that was stolen. why should i be punished?

[Q Classic]

the flip side is are they entitled to compensation from those who had no part in the sordid affair? if so, how is that any different from theft from those innocents?