Here's the bottom line. I promise you it's entirely legal, and he can't touch you for it. This is how the laws are written. They're designed to protect the fortunes of people as rich as you, while throwing the main tax burden on people in much lower brackets.
Orson Scott Card Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Page 200
- work
- Investment Counselor
Cite this record
“Here's the bottom line. I promise you it's entirely legal, a…” Orson Scott Card. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-59C3E31BC5. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/59c3e31bc5
More from Orson Scott Card
I've known too many men who never quite felt married no matter how many wives they'd been through. Their own and otherwise.
Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he hasn't quite mastered yet, and a proud man who pretends to have those virtues without the slightest intention of acquiring them?
Before the story he refused to even think about it; after the story, it became conceivable to him, and, once he could conceive of it, it soon became inevitable.