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?
That headline sounds like the Soviets when they collectivized farming and put agriculture under the control of politicians and other none farmers leading to the starvation of millions.
It was particularly bad in the Ukraine.
Robert Conquest and his mountain of research would disagree. To be joined by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
People like this have hoarded food for too long. Starving them will make food more abundant for the rest of us.
Return to feudal serfdom
That’s exactly what it is, the new Feudalism.
Karl Marx wanted to replace the old aristocratic order with one of his own making with him as king.
Comrade Stalin would be proud.
Yes.
bkmk
Rural England is “too White” and they hope to import more indians and pakis
Who is going to feed the Brits after they kick the farmers off of their land?
I remember when they did this in Zimbabwe. Didn’t turn out so good.
The Zimbabwe model?
The real problem is that the unproductive city-dwellers have been undercharged for the value of their sustenance. The farmers could easily pay those taxes if the expense was passed through to the consumer. Trump should offer a short-term loan program to relieve them in exchange for drastically raising the prices of food for urban scum.
That’s what this really is...
A land grab.
The next slogan for the dnc.
Something that could have come from “Atlas Shrugged”.
Someone needs to read “The Tragedy of the Commons”.
So pretty soon all that pretty British countryside will be owned by China. This would never happen if Elizabeth were still queen. Elizabeth the First or Second.
“Farming is difficult and that other four letter word….. WORK!”
Leftists have always believed that the food is supposed to miraculously appear for “the people”.
“Land reformers” are a “food cult”.
“We are at war with Russia, when the real marxists are in the West.”
That’s obvious to those that think for themselves. Think of it, the Evil Empire of the USSR was full communist and a threat to world peace a few decades back. Today it’s all reversed. Imagine the irony, if there is a global war, Russia will be the ones trying to rescue us from communism. And they will blow us all to Hell in the process.
It’s like a nightmare you can’t wake up from. And half of the western culture is too stupid to see what’s really going on.
What most don’t realized is that the collection of farmers being targeted are very high tech and very good at what they do, which is feeding Britain. The goal of the commies is to wreck all of this and blame it on someone else.
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