How hard have you worked to become a better person than your parents, to earn substantially more than they did? Think about all the steps you didn't have to take because those who came before you took them already. Who do you call to help your career out? Your H.S. / college classmates, your uncle, or maybe your mothers cousin or even your cousin? The pool the people like my friend can call is small, because he has garbage truck driver and bartenders in his social circle. How many steps do people like my friend have to go before they have even what you were born with?

The great news is that it is not impossible. My friend is moving on up, but our struggle is harder than my cousins (she will get an inheritance and my parents will give me nothing), and his is harder than mine.

Realize that complaining of taxes when your kids have some of life's finer luxuries when there are people out there like my friend who have to give up their chance to be like my parents, because they were born in in a different situation. This complaining can be called nothing else but whining. Take your whining else where is all I'm saying.

@C.S. I agree with you whole heatedly with your death and inheritance tax.

You lose the money because the supposedly rational you aren't rational, and do not know how to spend your money the best way. There's a revelation! This applies to government as well.

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