Let's see where this goes: let's talk about a 100% Inheritance tax.

[Kimberly]

That's the one! Thanks Carl.

[Sam Adams]

The economy was going to hell in the 90s.

She did not just say that!

[Ree]

She did not just say that!

yes she did....

[DumbAss Tanker]

Perragrande  (1000+ posts)        Tue Jun-24-08 05:27 PM
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30. What if your family is telling you you are worthless?

 

In the absence of solid evidence to the contrary, such as professional success, then I would say self-examination might be in order because there is a definite chance they're right!

 

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

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I814U (25 posts)      Thu Jan-08-09 07:45 AM
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137. "Family" is a fabrication of the religious and the rich...
 ...to keep "wealth" in their hands.

It sounds good that a man should keep what he makes (capialism) but wherefore the heir? He has produced nothing, he owns merely by accident of birth. They created the facade of marriage to keep property away from those who could earn it by willing it to those who have yet to earn it.

Marriage is a tool of oppression (hint! hint! GLBT crowd). Get rid of--or dilute--marriage and you destroy the cons.
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 anonymous171  (1000+ posts)        Thu Jan-08-09 08:21 PM
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143. Marriage as a state institution (not a religious one) helps society.
 Also, if you want to get all Marxist, the "religious" are not the ones creating the fabrication. That would be the rich. The rich are the ones that are supposed to have invented religion. Therefore the religious are simply pawns in the Class War, not generals. 
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I814U (25 posts)      Thu Jan-08-09 08:57 PM
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147. Exactly my point
 Perhaps it's time to de-opiatize (yay! I made a new word) the masses. Not only would we go far in abolishing the myth of private property but we would strike down the notions of humans owning other humans or giving inheritences to those who have done nothing to earn what doesn't exist, i.e. private property.

It would also make debacles such as Prop 8 moot. No more ugly child custody battles because parents no longer have a legal framework to "own" their children. Men could no longer divorce women for refusing to submit to them sexually (I believe the legal term is spousal abandonment, I'm not sure I'm a poli-sci major, not a law school student). It would go far in taking the fangs out of the church.

As for it being secular, societal good. I don't see how that can be maintained considering how many different forms of marriage exist over so many different societies throughout the millenia and the vast majority of them reduce women and children to chattel, but I sense you are a thoughtful reasonable person so I'm genuinely open to hear what you have to say.