Rachel Reeves has insisted the nation cannot afford to let all farmers continue passing on their estates without paying inheritance tax.
Independent farmers who own their own land and who are not routinely raped for wealth taxers. TYhy’d be sturdy yoemen, wouldn’t they? They’d be exemplars of the bourgeoisie in fact and we can;t have that when the project is to have all reliant upon govt – in order to give govt power over all.
I feel Reeves would be missing a trick if she doesn’t deport the Kulaks and give their land to immigrants.
The farmers could turn themselves into companies, I suppose, but it means even more paperwork.
No nothing for it but collectivisation.
Sorry old chap, your land belongs to The People now.
all together now
I am a little member of the commune, with a little sickle in my hand, and a bamboo basket on my shoulder.
I go to work after class, cutting weeds, collecting manure, and picking up the lost wheat ears.
The more I work, the more I love it.
Ayh-hey-hey, Aye-hey-hey,
Always keeping in mind the good character of the poor-and-lower-middle peasants,
Loving the collective and loving labor, I am a little member of the commune!
The number of civil servants has increased by 100k since 2016 IIRC – there could be a big saving there.
Some bloke on the wireless this morning (boss of a ‘fintech’ company or somesuch) opined that perhaps the government should create some growth first, before
investing billions of pounds of taxpayers money on national infrastructure projectsspunking billions of pounds of taxpayers money on their friends.It’s funny… Here in Clogland the Govts ( even the more socialist-tinted ones..) generally cuts things “they can’t afford”, instead oflooking where to raid.
Gets a lot of REEEE!!!-ing from the usual places, of course, but it does cut the dead growth of all the expensive “Initiatives” that simply don’t work down every once in a while.
Those will eventually be replaced by new money wasters, of course, but there is this yearly and biannual Pruning of the Dead Wood.
(And after the election, this year’s Pruning was pretty epic and is still causing Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth. Hasn’t, unfortunately, caused Timmermans to burst a vessel yet, but one might hope…..)
One reason this works, is that the Cloggie govts. in general do treat the Budget like our houshold wallet: stop spending on stuff we can’t afford and can do without.
Won’t happen, in the UK, of course… What you had under the Tories was already nepo-socialist…ish, and with Labour it’s gone full-on neo-communist ( This Time It Will Be Different!!).
But then again… We, the People, dug their own grave there.
An ancestor of mine died in 1913.
He left – presumably to his widow, children, and grandchildren – the inflation-linked equivalent of a few million quid. Naturally his estate had to pay death duty. 7%!
(Where has the money all gone? I suppose that if you live in an age where successive generations might have, say, ten children, the family capital gets dispersed pretty quickly. And nobody else, of course, was expected to subsidise your old age “care” or many other expenses of life.)