Re: Technical and Spiritual Development

From: Herb Schaltegger (herb.schaltegger_at_gmail.com.invalid)
Date: 01/24/05 

Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:21:14 -0600

In article <IAu7wJ.L9s@spsystems.net>,
 henry@spsystems.net (Henry Spencer) wrote:

> The Economist commented recently that Theodore Roosevelt introduced an
> inheritance tax precisely because he thought a society dominated by
> inherited wealth was deeply unhealthy for the republic.
> --

In law, the Rule Against Perpetuities was designed to ensure land
couldn't be ceded to one's heirs forever (or "in perpetuity"). Same
rationale, created several hundred years earlier and an ocean away. 

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