Quoted from Methos:Always should have been. The Europeans have been paying more via VAT for quite some time.
We need to get serious about taxes in this country. Do you really need to make 200k per year? At one time the top rate was ~ 80%. Let's get it back up there, and also eliminate the inheritance tax exclusion. You didn't earn daddy's millions, so pay your tax. Gotta sell the mansion? Too bad.
You didn't earn those millions either, so by your logic why should you benefit from them?
If anyone has a claim to that money it's the person the owner of the capital willed it to...