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Barry Bracewell-Milnes, in his powerful essay, ‘The hidden costs of inheritance taxation’1, argues against any restrictions upon inheritance at all, including any in the form of an inheritance quota such as I am defending here. His arguments are many; they are set out clearly, and they are set out with great skill. Nevertheless I think his arguments, in the end, fail. I shall, in this comment, attempt, in general outline, to show why. I shall not attempt to address all of his arguments and claims here, but only those that I think are most important.
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Haslett, D.W. (1997). A Reply to Bracewell-Milnes. In: Erreygers, G., Vandevelde, T. (eds) Is Inheritance Legitimate?. Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03343-2_9
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