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Tychon's avatar

I am line for a pretty reasonable inheritance and this piece made me do a bit of soul searching on that. So many of our problems are downstream of wealth hoarding, speculation and unproductive land use that perhaps IHT isn't the great curse on the world.

I do, however, disagree with the implication that property rights should be equated to modern 'uman roights and Protocol 1 ECHR. Defending one's wealth 'as a right' was the underpinning of a thousand years of English supremacy, even if it was subject to flux and seizure could take place at any moment. A Meritocracy couldn't birth a Cecil Rhodes if he had no security for his wealth beyond the grave at all.

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JMS's avatar

Cracking piece even for those who like me who share Tychon's doubt re assimilation of Dead Mum's Moolah to Hermer's Hobbyhorses. And I wd like to read a pendant piece on how the tax income (after repayment of the national debt) should be used to encourage Nietzschean sprogs; even harshly nationalistic individualists welcome an external boost. Nice to read somebody saying something nice about the splendid Truss Woman as well.

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