Farmers have hoarded land for too long. Inheritance tax will bring new life to rural Britain

https://qoshe.com/ ^ | 17.11.2024 | Will Hutton

[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?

[Jonty30]

It will be a disaster on the scale of the kulaks.

[Lazamataz]

Communism flexing its muscle in England.

[PGR88]

This is marxist expropriation, collectivization and social-engineering

Just done in 21st century woke style

We are at war with Russia, when the real marxists are in the West.

[A strike]

Will Hutton so very communist.
Just own it dude .

[jdt1138]

I am guessing that with the North Sea oil and gas flow slowing that Britain will be taken over and reduced to 3rd world status.

[llevrok]

We are at war with Russia, when the real marxists are in the West.

I forget who said after the fall of the Soviet Union but to the effect "We won the cold war but lost the war at home".

[DesertRhino]

Giant companies and entities like Bill Gates, like Blackrock and their British subsidiaries, etc will feast and buy all the Farmland.

[Yo-Yo]

Briton apparently wants to kill the family farm and instead be fed by corporate ag.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

Ahhh, yes. One of the favorite tools of the Left is to accuse private people of “hoarding.” In the 1930s, that is how the USSR destroyed Ukraine. The Soviets were themselves the real hoarders. Just like the democRATS today, the Soviets accused the masses of doing what the Soviets did. They did not just take all of the food out of Ukraine, they took all of the seeds to grow any more food. “Conservative” estimates were 10 million people starved.

In Nicaragua, before the Sandinista Commies took over, there were thriving Farmers Markets in the small towns and large cities. Farmers and ranchers would bring their products to sell and barter. The day after the Commies took power, no more Farmers Markets. All of the food was now the “people’s food.” Strict rationing was instituted. Any farmer found keeping too much harvested food was arrested for, yes, hoarding.

[PLMerite]

“They did not just take all of the food out of Ukraine, they took all of the seeds to grow any more food. “Conservative” estimates were 10 million people starved.”

And the people of Ukraine have not forgotten that.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

Ahhh, yes. One of the favorite tools of the Left is to accuse private people of “hoarding...”

Good post. "Land reform" is a fancy word for theft.

[Strict9]

taxes bring life

[Carry_Okie]

One of the first things socialists do when they gain power is to go after multigenerational land ownership. Once the government collapses financially, the land is bought up for pennies. The disastrous consequences for productivity are irreversible.

[Paladin2]

Theft, pure and simple.....

[Right_Wing_Madman]

And the people of Ukraine have not forgotten that.

The origins of the Holomodor remain in dispute. Academics agree there was a famine, but recent research points to environmental factors as the primary cause, and not an intentional genocide.

"Mark Tauger , an associate professor in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences , concludes in his book that claims the former Soviet Union engineered the 1933 famine are exaggerated. He further argues that the food shortage was not an act of genocide."

WVU professor's work on Soviet famine sparks debate 76 years later
January 7th, 2009

http://wvutoday-archive.wvu.edu/n/2009/01/07/7391.html

"The famine's cause was primarily environmental - the same global climate events that lead to the near-concurrent American dustbowl, and Ukraine was one of the lightest regions hit by famine - it was far worse in Khazhakstan."

Letter to Senate Committee On Veterans, Emergency Management, Federal and World Affairs

https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2023R1/Downloads/PublicTestimonyDocument/41486

[Lockbox]

Who will farm? Farming is difficult and that other four letter word….. WORK!

[Paladin2]

“He further argues that the food shortage was not an act of genocide.””

Is he openly a Commie or does he tend to hang out in the closet?

[alexander_busek]

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.

Ah, yes: It should instead by framed by the ne'er-do-wells, moochers, and non-productives and their interests.

Regards,

[Paladin2]

" WORK!"

MGK agrees.....

[Angelino97]

Farmers are mostly white Christian native Brits, the bedrock of traditional British culture.

This inheritance tax is NOT economic socialism. It's targeted ethnic cleansing.