Posted on 11/21/2024 9:53:46 PM PST by Jonty30
One of the baleful dimensions of our times is the way that the conversation about what constitutes the good society is framed by the rich and their interests. A conception of the common good withers; instead it is replaced by the existential importance of private wealth, private interests and private ownership to societal health. Nowhere is this more exposed than in the debate over taxation, and in particular the taxation of inherited wealth – as the debate over the past fortnight has dramatised.
Half a million people die every year. Under the reforms to inheritance tax relief on agricultural land proposed in the budget, about 500 individuals who inherit land worth more than £2m (£3m if they were married to the deceased) will join the rest of society and have inheritance tax levied on their bequest – albeit at half the rate, with an enlarged exemption and 10 years to pay it, concessions not made to the rest of us. How fortunate and privileged are they?
South Africa 2.0
Hoarded..ha!
Paid taxes on it. Had to comply with volumes of govt regs regarding it. Had govt destroy crops and livestock over time and try to rebuild back up at expense.
Yeah. Hoarded. Land Barons, the lot of them. HA! WHAT BOLLOCKS.
Charles loves the muzzies.
No royals were harmed by this theft.
England is absolutely effed.
The UK socialists:
Simple ownership of your family farm is “hoarding land.”
-You get the government you vote for-
I remember reading how the Soviet military would load up the food and seeds by the trainload.
Whatever environment issues that might have existed may have exacerbated the acts of the Soviet government, but the primary cause was the Soviet government.
“Farmers have hoarded land for too long. Inheritance tax will bring new life to rural Britain”
So keeping what is yours is now hoarding.
That’s what owning nothing and being happy is all about.
“ So keeping what is yours is now hoarding.”
This is why you never, ever cede the language.
“Those who control language control minds.” Rand.
L
No, but it should not be ordered with todays rampant callous disregard for the interests of the normal people in the country.
So, my wanting to keep what is mine - what I worked for, paid for, and paid taxes on - is now "callous?!"
Regards,
Trying to take the land of farmers that legally own the land they are on with taxes to bankrupt them is one of the major reasons the time of the small farmer is over. The growth of corporate coops tying into the takeover has raised prices, and involved large corporate and questionable groups into the business. With socialists, it is only a do it for right now and not the future no matter what it will be.
wy69
Very well said!
If the Sems had won they would be trying it here; we must stand with the farmers and just as in the election, stop the Reds cold.
BTTT
Just who do does this commie fool think is going to end up getting the land? It ain’t going to be the poor is my guess.
Liberalism —> Socialism —> Communism —> Oligarchism.
LIberalism is ultimately the pathway to oligarchism. Government serve their clients and those clients are never the people.
Electricity Comes form Walls
Food Comes from Shelves
Just because Kazakstan is Muslim doesn't mean the Communists didn't murder them.
No need to argue who suffered more.
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