{"id":5611,"date":"2026-01-29T23:42:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=5611"},"modified":"2026-01-29T23:42:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:42:30","slug":"does-inherited-wealth-just-indicate-healthy-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2026\/01\/29\/does-inherited-wealth-just-indicate-healthy-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Inherited Wealth Just Indicate Healthy Economy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is not the total amount of inherited wealth that is a problem (indeed that is just a measure of the total wealth available for intergenerational transfer – which is basically all privately held wealth). And I think at various points this article<\/a> fails to give more than lip service to the question of disproportionately large inheritances.<\/p>\n

Of course, taxing large numbers of modest inheritances does not achieve redistribution unless the revenue is actually redistributed (eg by something like a UBI). But taxing inheritances (and gifts) at the same progressive rate as earned income could provide for some kind of Universal Fair Inheritance – which would leave the assets in private hands (eg for reinvestment etc), but just on a more equitable basis. And the problem of extracting taxes from illiquid assets of uncertain value like a functioning business could be solved by accepting an ownership share of the asset as an alternative to demanding payment in cash.<\/p>\n

Source: Inherited wealth is a natural byproduct of a healthy, growing economy | Aeon Essays<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is not the total amount of inherited wealth that is a problem (indeed that is just a measure of the total wealth available for intergenerational transfer – which is basically all privately held wealth). And I think at various … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5613,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611\/revisions\/5613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}