Solar Panel and Wind Turbine Idea
When wealthy people die, much of their money gets taxed. It is called the estate tax, by those who like the tax and the death tax by those who want to make the tax sound morbid. In nations that have the estate tax, rich people who spend their money on solar panels or wind turbines could avoid it, with all the money that they use for that equipment. This would stimulate the market for this equipment. Billions of dollars would get invested in this wind turbines and solar panels. And we wouldn't be going around the estate tax really, because when you die you are not transferring money, or houses. You give your kids a pile of solar panels or wind turbines. The "value" of these items do not get taxed. So instead of Paris Hilton getting access to offshore bank accounts when her father dies, she would get millions of dollars of solar equipment that her dad bought in 2010, that helped stimulate the economy, and that she can use to produce clean energy.