Organisers urged protesters not to bring farm machinery into central London, though some tractors drove past Downing Street covered with signs saying “the final straw” and “no farmers, no food.”
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Organisers urged protesters not to bring farm machinery into central London, though some tractors drove past Downing Street covered with signs saying “the final straw” and “no farmers, no food.”
Archived version: https://archive.li/6qCeT
Inheritance tax should be amended to be also paid on trusts (and stocks and shares) then. Just because it’s currently implemented badly doesn’t mean it’s a flawed concept.
It can’t be done without the entire world banking system being complicit. Plus why should my wealth be taken away just cos i died.
… cause you died and thus aren’t using it anymore.
Thats a very selfish view to take not the sort of opinion id like my parents to have.
Because that leads to a snowballing effect. Money begets money. Over generations, it gets sucked into an ever smaller pool of people. This (among other things) led to serfdom etc in the Middle Ages. We only broke out of that due to the Black Death.
We need a way to allow money to spread back to the general populous. An inheritance tax is a crude, but effective, way to do that.
How would you go about achieving this?
Most intergenerational wealth is lost within a few generations actually.
There would be 2 things id do to fix tax