The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. He then turned the gun on himself and fired another fatal shot.
Lawyers do exact a huge, and often hugely unconscionable, tax on death.
Repeated efforts to simplify or eliminate probate, and reduce the lawyer-fueled death tax, have always hit the same stone wall of lawyer control of key committees in state legislatures. By contrast, England, which invented probate, did away with it in the 1920s. That exceeds the total amount that goes to doctors and hospitals who treat accident victims. Call to arms Lawsuits consume 2.2 percent of the nation's gross domestic product. Lawsuits in Italy and Germany consume 1.3 percent of the GDP, in England, France and Canada it's 0.8 percent and in Japan it's 0.5 percent.