Quote from: Badman-Crypto on April 09, 2019, 09:00:36 PM

Quote from: TECSHARE on April 09, 2019, 04:10:46 PM

In order for you argument to be valid, taxation would have to be exclusive to Capitalism. Unfortunately for your argument Socialism/Communism either tax you EVEN MORE heavily, or strip your right to private property at all. Kind of hard to take the family farm when it already belongs to dear leader right?

Fair enough, It's a valid point that inheritance tax is not exclusive to capitalism, although it was the corporate buyout that seemed more in line with capitalism.

Quote from: TECSHARE on April 09, 2019, 04:10:46 PM

Also, I find it very interesting that you are using the very argument I am using to argue against Socialism/Communism within our capitalist system to blame Capitalism when my entire point was that it is a policy directly from The 10 Planks of Communism to remove inheritance rights. Under Capitalism that was not infected with Communism, there would be no inheritance tax because that income has already been taxed multiple times.

Gotta disagree on this one. If inheritance tax was a symptom of capitalism infected with communism, how did England introduce "death duty" (a form of early inheritance tax) before 1700, long before communism was thought up?

Quote from: TECSHARE on April 09, 2019, 04:10:46 PM

You see Communism REQUIRES Capitalism to operate, but Capitalism does not require Communism to operate, as a result Communism will always appear within Capitalist systems, not independently of them. Of course this makes convenient fodder for simple minded folk to create this weird cognitive defect of binary choice which makes it easier to superficially make it appear their projections make sense.

I'm not sure what you mean by this, surely the USSR and the China Republic were communist countries independent of capitalism, at least at the beginning?

I never claimed inheritance tax was EXCLUSIVE to Communism, I just stated that removal of inheritance rights is one of the 10 planks of Communism to prove the point that a lot of Communist aligned policies are already in use today.

The USSR and China were by no means independent of Capitalism, at any point. It is a fact Marxism/Socialism/Communism REQUIRES Capitalism to exist, this was even in Marx's original writings if I remember correctly. Think about it for a minute. Even if those nations were 100% Communist, they still were operating within the default world order of Capitalism.