“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
rewatching Avatar is so weird because Sokka is literally the only thing keeping them alive and fed. He constantly is like,
'guys we're out of supplies/ we need to stop/ we're attracting too much attention with the flying bison we should walk' etc.
Like in the ´The Storm' when they're completely out of money and supplies the one to get a job in hopes of making money (he never actually gets paid, the world hates him) is Sokka.
In 'The Waterbending Scroll,' it's Sokka who's concerned about their lack of supplies when Aang sends them in a wave down the river, and is making sure they're careful with their spendibg when in town shopping.
He's also seen to catch fish and gather nuts (I know more often than not he fails to catch things on screen but it's implied he's the one that does most of the hunting and gathering)
It's like- Aang totally would have starved to death or gotten completely off track with often they're completely out of food and money
In the US: For federal taxes, you'd have to inherit 14M before inheritance taxes kick in, and for state taxes, it varies, but it's at least 2M. This is not something that 99.9% of people ever have to be concerned with, and it is not something that any people on this post complaining about it will ever have to think about.
That would probably be a better argument if he weren't talking about the UK, specifically. Where IT is currently topical.
(Did you fail to notice OP is "modernBritain"?)
And if you had actually addressed the criticism of the morality.
Turns out people can oppose things that they think are bad even if they won't personally benefit from stopping that bad thing.
And, in fact, people do that all the time.
Odd that you would assume otherwise. Almost like you're projecting.
People also oppose things - including this - on general principle, not based on the specifics of what the thing currently effects.*
Also, I love how you call people "bootlickers" while you support the government taking more of other people's money, and assume that anyone who takes a stance that benefits "oligarchs" (IE rich people, which is not the same thing) must do so specifically to benefit those oligarch.
By your own "logic", you're a government bootlicker.
And so was the guy you're defending.
At the very least, you didn't do thirty seconds of research, and weren't talking about the right country.
Even if they had been talking about the US, you didn't actually address the moral argument these folks were making, which was...the entire argument.
Also, "inheritance tax" and "fair share of taxes" are not the same thing, and I doubt you'll convince anyone who disagrees with you by spouting canned leftist slogans.
Especially ones dressing up subjective standards as objective ones.
Weird how you found info for US IT, but somehow don't know that rich people already pay higher taxes than everyone else.
*For example; not trusting the government to limit high taxes to "the (super) rich". Especially when it has a very obvious incentive to move the goalposts.
Also, thanks to the government money printer running in overtime, our currency has been grossly devalued and a 2M inheritance would include a lot of SMALL family owned businesses, including family farms. In some communities a perfectly normal house might eat up a lot of that 2M threshold. Having a million dollars isn't rich anymore thanks to inflation.
The UK's threshold for IT is £325k, with a bonus 175k for your house. That's not "rich" by any means. That doesn't fund a retirement.
In France, the limit is €100k tax-free for relatives, anything above is taxed at 20% for roughly the first 500k, then up to 45% until 1.8 million. And that's for direct line succession, if you want to leave anything to a brother or sister, you start at 35% for the first 25k and then up to 45%. For cousins, nephews, etc... you start at 55%. Anyone else, 60%.
Iamadequate is making the mistake of thinking everyone has the same (relatively lax) tax conditions as in the US. "Fair share" above the 2 million dollars seens fine, especially if they never plan to save up because the world's gonna be on fire in 20 years. So people opposing it must be against the version they have, and therefore be "oligarch bootlickers", rather than the more stringent version that exists literally anywhere else.
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