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1. Who is going to do it? Politicians? As it works here with the EU subsidies - 80% of the money goes through the PM's cousin's company and a hefty percentage leaks to offshore banks :)

2. Yeah, after they did that, people didn't want to work any more, so they had to force them :)

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I'm not interested in debating someone who thinks raising estate taxes is what ruined the East Block.

Enlighten me, what ruined it?

I guess the incarceration rate would be a good candidate too

Totalitarian rule. Lack of democracy. Lack of freedom of speech. Constant surveillance. Integration of politics into every aspect of life. Economic exploitation by Russia. Intentional undermining of historical cultural identity.

I could on.

So you say that a government which takes (unwillingly) the inheritance of all its citizens can pull it off without a totalitarian approach, suppressing freedom of speech, constant surveillance (to figure out who has what) etc?

I don't buy it :)

Yes, taxing people is not a totalitarian thing.

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