Why only seatbelts?

[Gunnar]

How selfish and inconsiderate of that peasant to foolishly die! Look at the labor he's now deprived of his lord. We must sock it to his heirs with an inheritance tax to make up for it.

Honestly, ajax, do you really fail to see how stupid and ignorant that remark is!?!

Federal Estate Tax Rates for 2021

To make things simple, if your estate is worth $11.7 million or less, you don’t need to worry about the federal estate tax. However, any estates worth more than that are taxed only on the amount that surpasses the $11.7 million threshold. For most of the federal estate tax tiers, you’ll pay a base tax, as well as a marginal rate. Current federal estate taxes max out at 40% for taxable amounts greater than $1 million.

[ajax18]

Well at least I enjoyed one last good tax outcome for 2020 with my S corp. My accountants went to war for me over the past 6 months and won. I paid off my silverado and hopefully can make a nice down payment on my wife's new SUV. I have life insurance to protect my daughter and my son for when I pass away that I amazingly still had the freedom of choice in woke 2021 to purchase or not.

But I am going to cut back when taxes go up on S corporations. I'm not going to keep spinning the hamster wheel at this rate for Bidenflated dollars.

Why only seat belts? Seat belts were the first steps in the slippery slope against personal freedom. Will the mask mandates ever end? Will Covid and/or all other airborne communicable respiratory ailments ever be eradicated? Until that day, someone can always accuse you of getting them sick. And since eradication is impossible, we'll be in masks forever.

[Themis]

Will the mask mandates ever end?

Yes.

And since eradication is impossible, we'll be in masks forever.

No. Your post really shows how ignorant you are of the issues. While it is looking like eradication is not possible, certain restrictions like wearing of mask are temporary until enough people have immunity from serious disease. This is done through vaccines and those who survive natural infection. Preferably this is done through vaccines to avoid the worst outcomes. Eventually enough will get immunity from serious disease that will will no longer need certain tools like mask mandates to protect society.

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

Caleb Wallace, a 30-year-old father of three, has been unconscious, ventilated and heavily sedated in the ICU at Shannon Medical Center in San Angelo since Aug. 8, the Standard-Times reported. His wife said on a GoFundMe page for household and medical bills that he was was intubated multiple times, had high fevers, infection and bleeding in his chest.

In July 2020, Caleb Wallace reportedly helped organize a “freedom rally” that billed itself as a protest against the “government being in control of our lives.” He also founded the San Angelo Freedom Defenders, which hosted a separate rally last year to “end COVID tyranny.”

Someone’s ‘body’ flew out of the ‘windshield’ and landed in Caleb’s lungs. Caleb, who doesn’t believe in ‘seatbelt wearing’ due to government overreach is expected to double down if he makes a recovery. Qtards are organizing a gofundme for Caleb’s family in the event ‘not wearing his seatbelt’ bankrupts his family because they also don’t believe in socialized healthcare.

- Doc

[ajax18]

Eventually enough will get immunity from serious disease that will will no longer need certain tools like mask mandates to protect society.

Just like enough became immune to the flu and all it's subsequent variants? There will always be a small percentage of deaths due to COVID. And since this is unacceptable, we will all be wearing masks and ocassioanlly fined or incarcerated for attempting to open up the shop and work long after you and I are both in the spirit world.

[Res Ipsa]

Eventually enough will get immunity from serious disease that will will no longer need certain tools like mask mandates to protect society.

Just like enough became immune to the flu and all it's subsequent variants? There will always be a small percentage of deaths due to COVID. And since this is unacceptable, we will all be wearing masks and ocassioanlly fined or incarcerated for attempting to open up the shop and work long after you and I are both in the spirit world.

The primary reason for mandating masks now is to avoid overrunning health care facilities. At some point in the future, there won’t be enough COVID patients requiring an ICU bed at the same time or facilities will be extended until there are. You’ve been obsessing over the death rate, and ignoring the actual reasons for mask mandates.

[Gunnar]

How selfish and inconsiderate of that peasant to foolishly die! Look at the labor he's now deprived of his lord. We must sock it to his heirs with an inheritance tax to make up for it.

Honestly, ajax, do you really fail to see how stupid and ignorant that remark is!?!

Federal Estate Tax Rates for 2021

To make things simple, if your estate is worth $11.7 million or less, you don’t need to worry about the federal estate tax. However, any estates worth more than that are taxed only on the amount that surpasses the $11.7 million threshold. For most of the federal estate tax tiers, you’ll pay a base tax, as well as a marginal rate. Current federal estate taxes max out at 40% for taxable amounts greater than $1 million.

To make it even more clear how foolish your remark was, no one is proposing to levy an inheritance tax on the "poor peasant", for whom, based on your past posting history, you have nothing but contempt, despite your above disingenuously implied sympathy for their plight. The only people currently being levied an inheritance tax are the fabulously wealthy and avaricious "feudal lords", who can both afford and deserve to pay such a tax. Why do you defend and sympathize with them? Do you consider yourself to be or aspire to become one of them?

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

Given all the thoughts on trolling expressed here lately, I guess it's unavoidable to realize that ajax is mostly trolling. He doesn't converse. He doesn't follow up or support his assertions. He just writes nonsense to see what happens.

Time to ignore him. Reading his comments kills brain cells.

I have him on ignore for the same reasons, butbutbut, I’ll take him off ignore if he ever decides to engage in good faith arguments. I told him years ago if he would present better or sophisticated arguments instead of just goldfish-pivot-meme’ing his way through a thread he might move the needle to the right with some posters because a lot of us actually hold some historically conservative notions about social conventions and policy positions.

That said, I find the analogy in the title absurd. It’s akin to:

Seatbelts:

Can get in a car wreck
Can hit a tree
Can die

No seatbelts:

Can get in a car wreck
Can hit a tree
Can die
Can't die from seatbelt asphyxiating you

Therefore why impose seatbelt wearing on the population, because dontcha know you can die from seatbelt asphyxiation? How about:

Bullet proof vests:

Police officers have died from gunshot wounds while wearing bullet-proof vests.

Police officers have survived a gunshot would with no bullet proof vest

Clearly, clearly, they should just not wear them anymore.


Firearms:

Baddies can sometimes get hold of Police Officers firearms

Police have arrested baddies without a gun.

Clearly Police shouldn’t carry firearms.

-_-

Statistics should be a required annual course starting in Middle School (along with Civics).

- Doc

[Res Ipsa]

And basic reasoning.

[ajax18]

The primary reason for mandating masks now is to avoid overrunning health care facilities.

That's the same reason they gave for the lockdowns initially. Then that accelerated to lockdown until eradication and an excuse for more welfare.

At some point in the future, there won’t be enough COVID patients requiring an ICU bed at the same time or facilities will be extended until there are.

There will always be another variant and maybe even 6500 casualties per year indefinitely.