100% inheritance tax
That'd sort it out. Maybe a small exemption for carers, who deserve a modest reward for looking after aged relatives.

Everyone else can work for their money and odious Trex-faced gits like George Osborne would never have been heard of.

There is plenty of money in the country to pay off the national debt and run a decent health service, but it's in the hands of moneyed dynasties who do nothing to deserve it other than having the right parents.

And I write this as someone who probably WILL inherit half a mill.
(rogerzilla, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 20:13, 14 replies)

I like this, no one else will.

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 26 Sep 2011, 20:37, closed)

indeed
.
(magic the cat will someone please think of the kittens, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 20:41, closed)

And this is the way it should be.
Meritocracy is such a passé, 20th-century concept, plus can you imagine madness would result if those awful plebs weren't kept in their place? For instance, you'd end up with state-educated financiers and lawyers, who would drink beer and talk about what they watched on ITV last night! It would be like Bolshevism all over again.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 21:01, closed)

Surely, you write this as someone who is living under a tory government, safe in the knowledge that they are far more likely to cut inheritance tax, not raise it?
Or are you going to hand your inheritance over to the state as a volountary contribution?

Failing that, can I have some?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 21:15, closed)

Yes - how dare parents try to provide for their children!
Why should they have a say in what is done with the property they earned while they were alive, after they die? BASTARDS.

While we're at it, parents shouldn't be allowed to provide for their lazy, good-for-nothing children in the first place; the only way they'll learn is to do it for themselves.

Let the children run wild, and work it out on their own.

Oh - wait ...
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 9:01, closed)

can you lend me some money

(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 9:29, closed)

You should set up your very own Down's Syndrome Political Party
The manifesto would be worth a flick through for a change.
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 9:29, closed)

You don't have to wait for a change in the tax system
Just sign your part of the will over to me, and your dream has already come true.
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 9:44, closed)

HEY EVERYONE, I'M GOING TO BE RICH, BUT I DON'T LIKE TO BOAST ABOUT IT ON THE INTERNET.
you'll be voluntarily donating your inheritance then, will you?
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 9:54, closed)

Hah.
Wonder what the 'probably' is for?

Besides, half a mil is hardly Bertie Wooster territory. Most parts of London that won't even get you 3 bedrooms.
(username failed moderation, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 10:11, closed)

You'd simply create
some new industry in 'laundering' inheritances.

I'm pretty sure my mother, who is far from the stupidest person on the planet, would have her house up for sale a minute and a half after the law was passed.

Sorry Mr chancellor, no idea what she did with the money. She was a bit eccentric towards the end. Anything else you need to know, only I have a flight to catch.
(username failed moderation, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 10:09, closed)

I hope it's a good mill.
Half a windmill, for example, will be fucking useless.
( Muns, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 10:16, closed)

Wouldn't work
Because like now, you just get rid of your wealth before you die, sign it over to relatives or whoever and they loan it back to you. Then at death you do not own anything.
(LetsGetDownToIt, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 10:18, closed)

You don't expect
People who propose this sort of cobblers to understand the law of unintended consequences, do you?
(davywavy, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 12:09, closed)