Subj : Re: Um...no comment?
To   : Angus McLeod
From : Deuce
Date : Mon Sep 12 2005 06:54 pm

  Re: Re: Um...no comment?
  By: Angus McLeod to Richardw on Mon Sep 12 2005 19:58:00

 >  > You are one twisted individual.
 > 
 > Thankfully, "Death Duties" here are ZERO.
 > 
 > Could never see the reasoning behind the idea that the estate of the
 > deceased should be stripped down to nothing.  My father started his
 > business with a working capital of four pounds.  He worked himself into an
 > early grave (died at 60) and left a widow and a son still at school (me).
 > Someone want to tell me why my mother should have been left destitute and
 > I should have been denied the ability to complete my education, just so
 > the government could rip off my old man's estate?  Particularly when you
 > consider that whatever he left behind was *already* the slim pickings
 > remaining after every cent he ever made had already been taxed to the
 > hilt?

Any particular reason the assets couldn't have been jointly held between him
and his wife?

And remember, I was suggesting death taxes as an alternative to all other
taxes.

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