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That sounds like a lottery for housing, with extra steps? Hypothetical scenario: we have 100 houses, and 200 young families looking for one. Your solution in effect is: let's give 100 houses to the 100 young people with an inheritance. That sounds arbitrary.

Lack of housing is a disconnected problem from inheritance taxes.

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Your analogy is plain wrong. To start with people with inheritances can and do own multiple homes.

I'm sorry, I genuinly don't understand your point. Could you expand a bit?

> Hypothetical scenario: we have 100 houses, and 200 young families looking for one. Your solution in effect is: let's give 100 houses to the 100 young people with an inheritance

This assumes that each family only gets a single house. With enough wealth you can buy out all the houses (not considering other factors)

Of course? I think we are debating the same side of this point though: "Inheritance is a horrible way to divide prosperity within society, as it doesn't take into account the wants or needs of the people still alive."

If that is not the case, I unfortunately still didn't get your point.

How is it arbitrary? You realise these are the offspring of the deceased? Children are not randomly assigned to taxpaying citizens.

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