« Contrary to what everyone thinks, the transmission of heritage to their children is not self -evident » – Liberation
They would make our century the most left for good complexion centrists. In the 19th century, intellectuals and politicians began on Heritage transmission And imagine scenarios much more inventive than the parents-child inheritance. The philosophers Auguste Comte (1798-1857), Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865), Saint-Simon (1760-1825), the socialist Jean Jaurès (1859-1914) or the founder of French sociology Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) have much more radical visions than today. Jean-Luc Mélenchon offered during the 2022 presidential election of « Take everything » Above 12 million euros in wealth. Small player compared to the social-liberal economist John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), who proposed to place this just threshold at the level of the« Comfortable independence » assured to his children. Far from the 12 million euros, therefore.
« More or less tax? » is the only question we are able to ask in our time, deplores Mélanie Plouviez, lecturer at the Côte d’Azur university in social and political philosophy. This poverty of the debates is largely based on a detestation of inheritance tax:
