'You Didn't Earn That:' British Journo Wants A 100% Inheritance Tax Because It'll 'Incentivize Work'

Posted • August 21, 2025: This writer genuinely wonders if journalists have ever met real people or understand how the human mind works. They constantly advocate for policies and laws that run contrary to basic human nature because they run in small circles of like-minded Leftists and never talk to us normies. Take British journo Lewis Goodall, for example. He thinks the inheritance tax should be 100%. —— ‘You don’t have a right to inherit money from mummy and daddy that you did nothing to earn.' Lewis Goodall suggests hiking inheritance tax to 100% in order to reduce income tax and 'incentivise work.' —— In what world does taking everything you've earned upon your death -- making it illegal to leave it to your children -- 'incentivize work'? It does the opposite: it discourages work, because there's no financial incentive to do so. So I don’t have a right to leave money that I earned to my children…but you have a “right” to take it and redistribute it the way you see fit? Tell me more about your strange and nonsensical approach to “rights.” Because reasons.

'Real communism hasn't been tried.' —— Inheritance taxes mean that if your father, instead of buying a TV, a videgame console, etc. every year for $1,000, set aside the same amount of money sacrificing his immediate happiness for your future, the government thinks it's entitles to that money. Immoral and corrupt. Absolutely immoral and corrupt. How about incentivizing work for people on the dole instead. Nah. Giving them money isn't selfish and greedy. Or something. This is the economic version of digital downloads - the idea that your money isn't actually yours and you're only leasing the right to have and use it so long as you're alive, after which time it reverts back to the state. It's grotesque. They have whatever right to their parents’ money that their parents say they have. The government shouldn’t be able to take one red cent of it. It was already taxed on the way in. It won't stop with money, either. 'You have no right to what you didn't earn' is an exciting position for a Left-winger to take, and I look forward to this being applied to the welfare state. No, no. That's (D)ifferent. (…)

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