Are you on Team Bollinger or Team Rivian?

[freebeard]

Originally Posted by Piotrsko

There is a series of Sci-fi books that explain the tribulations of making a fair tax, most of which lead to revolution.

Any guesses?

Foundation
Dune
Star Wars
Expanse?
Mars Trilogy
Warhammer 40K?

[Hersbird]

Originally Posted by Piotrsko

There is a series of Sci-fi books that explain the tribulations of making a fair tax, most of which lead to revolution.

Well if one person out of 6 billion can write fiction novels about it it must be true.

[Piotrsko]

Originally Posted by Hersbird

Well if one person out of 6 billion can write fiction novels about it it must be true.

Don't do sarcasm well, EH?

Old book, so there was 5 billion

[rmay635703]

Originally Posted by Hersbird

I agree, all income taxes are unfair, but some people's only income ever comes from an inheritance. The key IMO is to set one fair rate for all. Too many are to the point of never paying income tax

My folks didn’t pay any income tax for many years but half their income back then went to property taxes because they refused to let the house go.

[oil pan 4]

It depends. If you get millions of dollars then you have likely done your homework or hired lawyers and accounts to do it for you and pay hardly any taxes on it.
If you inherent tens of thousands of dollars then the government will try to take their cut.
You know, just to make sure we will always remain proletariat because they decided that's what's best for us.

[freebeard]

Old book, so there was 5 billion

So, John Carter of Barzoom?

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by oil pan 4

If you inherent tens of thousands of dollars then the government will try to take their cut.
You know, just to make sure we will always remain proletariat because they decided that's what's best for us.

No wonder the far-left is quite obsessed with taxation of inheritances. On a sidenote, my grandfather had a small beach house and at the moment of transfering it to my grandmother as an inheritance, it was a PITA to circumvent the taxation of it as an inheritance.

[Piotrsko]

Originally Posted by freebeard

So, John Carter of Barzoom?

Best I can recollect, it was a subset of the Foundation series but written by another author. Sorry, the fable remains, but the details have eroded.

[freebeard]

According to Asimov, the premise was based on ideas in Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,
[snip]
Four years later, Asimov followed up with yet another sequel, Foundation and Earth (1986), which was followed by the prequels Prelude to Foundation (1988) and Forward the Foundation (1993), published after his death in 1992

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series

So it could be prequel, sequel or fan fiction.

[RedDevil]

Asimov is more Rivian than Bollinger imho.