What if Background did Inherit?

This page should make the point as to why it makes no sense for background type properties to inherit by default. My intent was to have the bear image strip only at the top of the page by setting the BACKGROUND-IMAGE property of the BODY tag.
 
I forced all elements to act as if they inherited the background by setting the universal selector to specify that every element would inherit the background properties:
 
body {
   background-image: url(images/inherit_whyNot_BG.jpg);
   background-repeat: no-repeat;
   background-position: 0 0;
   }
 
* { background: inherit; }

• Every element now uses that image as its background.
• Look at the header. Notice that content elements have a background image and this is on top of the body's background image.
• ARGH! We are glad that background does not inherit!
• Layout properties like margin, padding, position, border and others also do not inherit for the same reason.

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