I've never met either. Then again, I'm not in the US. A PhD is always done in conjunction with a job. And I don't mean waitressing, I mean your PhD work is incorporated in your job.
Where can you buy a 2M euro mansion? Here in BW a million buys you a small house, or even just a Wohnung.
Those who own a house worth one or two million euros aren't rich. They'll have bought it for peanuts a decade ago. They'll have worked hard and paid plenty of tax. So why charge more tax on top of that after they've died? You're just punishing their children, who aren't going to be well off by any stretch of the imagination.
I'm all for levying inheritance tax on the properties owned by millionaires and billionaires and their trust fund babies, naturally.
I'm 57. I lost my job and had to move abroad to find another. Lost my house in the process, now paying rent that's triple my old mortgage. Menopause is an absolute nightmare. I won't have a pension because the country I was born in has take it away because I moved abroad and the country I live in now won't be giving me a pension.
And yet, whenever I go to demonstrations, they're mostly attended by Gen-X-ers.