Communists stupidly ignore facts (The Tragedy of The Commons) and history (The Great Chinese Famine).
Posted by ENVYisEVIL@reddit | Libertarian | View on Reddit | 52 comments
tawhid18@reddit
These people are ruining my country
1fojv@reddit
This is why I store my wealth in Gold and Bitcoin.
MysticalWeasel@reddit
These people need to watch “Clarkson’s Farm” on Amazon to get an idea of how much goes into farming.
Our-Destiney@reddit
They’re coming for farmers now?
Bigb5wm@reddit
I don’t get why they go after the hands that feed them. The ruling class I’m England don’t seem like bright people
t0rnAsundr@reddit
Factory farms in the US are recreating the dust bowl by cutting field perimeter trees to maximize profits. Like what are these stupid trees doing here…?
anim8or@reddit
Socialists always come for the farmers. It’s the best way to control the populace as a whole, is to control the food supply
heimeyer72@reddit
I will get downvoted to nothing because nobody gets the difference but somebody had to say it.
Eadbutt-Grotslapper@reddit
They have been for a while now
lmea14@reddit
You always know there's going to be a truly moronic lefty socialist take when it's accompanied by one of those po-faced Guardian headshots.
nayls142@reddit
What percentage of farmland in the UK is owned by Lords or royalty?
Butane9000@reddit
They be unburdened by what has been. This happens to include a reliable food supply. Funny enough they'll also find out what happens when the people underneath you begin to realize they're about to starve.
ostrich696911011@reddit
Tradesmen have hoarded tools for too long! Pharmacist have hoarded medications for too long! Lumberyards have hoarded lumber for too long!
GameThug@reddit
Damn those farmers and their food-growing!
TravisKOP@reddit
Morons are going to literally kill their own agriculture industry.
The commonwealth nations are honestly so fucked it’s scary
DixieNormas011@reddit
No theyre not. They're just going to kill the ability for peasants to own that land.
jerbone@reddit
Who the fuck do they think will buy up all that land???? It won’t be individuals that’s for sure. All property will end up in a couple major mega companies.
Mead_and_You@reddit
So the average farmer in the UK's property is valued ar a million or more dollars. That is how they are justifying this nonsense.
The problem is that the value of assets is not the same as wealth or money coming in. The average farmer in the UK makes less than 30k a year.
This is going to force farmers to sell, but new young farms aren't gonna be the ones buying those farms. Black rock is gonna be the the ones buying that land.
This is nothing more than leftists stealing from the poor and giving to the rich. Again...
AKblazer45@reddit
Black rock AND rich people who want they’re own “country” home.
2lbmetricLemon@reddit
It is about controlling the food supply
Brummie49@reddit
FYI, under the new rules there's no inheritance tax for a farm worth close to £3 million (assuming it's owned by a couple and includes agricultural vehicles and a home).
The vast majority of farms will not be affected.
RedditorSinceTomorro@reddit
How many years until 3M is peanuts due to inflation?
1_shade_off@reddit
You shut up. Just let me pretend it's all gonna be alright
Mead_and_You@reddit
It's cute that you're just believing and repeating the line you are handed by your government.
The reality is that more than 70,000 farmers will be effected. This literally only benefits the rich, and you're an idiot for supporting it.
PaNa_ForM@reddit
I'm sure he knows it, be completely knows what happened before and the stupid results this measure will create, but they don't give a shit, because they know they will always have food on the table.
JohnTheSavage_@reddit
Wait... Are the kids of these families not a younger generation? Are farmers somehow having kids that are older than them and then leaving their farms to them?
heimeyer72@reddit
Yes, it's almost cute how words can put facts completely upside down:
"Out with old, experienced farmers who know their land, sell it to 'new' (=completely clueless) outsiders who will spend lots of their money for modern equipment and will fail nevertheless" - Really, that seems like creating a milder version of the Holodomor :-(
I can't see where the advantage for anyone / any group might be. The taxes?
heimeyer72@reddit
Paraphrasing an old Native-American saying: "When the last farm is sold to investors and all farmers are slaves, you will learn that there is nothing left to eat - but the slaves."
Springer0983@reddit
Doesn’t the royal family and the lords own all the rural land?
BeachBum594@reddit
And they’re exempted from inheritance tax if I remember correctly.
TheAzureMage@reddit
They are...as otherwise it would lead to the diminution of their lands.
Obviously unacceptable for the royals, but expected of the common folk.
Sea-Construction-550@reddit
My first thought. They're the largest landowners in Britain
Hack874@reddit
This seems to be a recurring trend throughout history. Why does the far left have such a raging hate boner for… farmers of all people? Like, that’s about as blue-collar as you can possibly get.
Such a bizarre hill to die on.
TravisKOP@reddit
Farmers are gentry in their eyes and therefore bourgeois, thus giving them the justification to target them
Brummie49@reddit
Most rural communities in the UK are extremely wealthy compared to the cities, the people who work on the farms might be tenant farmers or paid employees, but the landowners are mostly very wealthy.
TheAzureMage@reddit
Ah yes, lets just *checks notes* get rid of the farms. This will surely not have any unfortunate consequences.
Malagoy@reddit
Bro had the perfect set up to introduce LVT (note; it is considered by economicists from all political stripes to be the least bad tax, if they must do taxation this is the way to go about it), but instead proposes one of the dumbest. Wealth is built generationally, this will only prevent less wealthy families from building wealth, as the more rich ones can just shoulder the burden.
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triad@reddit
>As importantly, a key principle that has underpinned all human societies – that we have a right to share in the bounty of inherited assets – will be reaffirmed. Whether ancient Rome or feudal Europe, societies have taken the view that just because an individual got lucky and came out of the right womb, they are not entitled to inherit everything without paying some levy or tribute on their inherited wealth.
There you have it. People work not just to enrich themselves, but to provide a future for their families. The likes of Mr. Hutton believes he is entitled to his share of that generational creation, simply for existing in society.
> After all, wealth is enjoyed in a societal context and society made a contribution to the existence of the wealth. Of course society should share in the transfer, if only in a minor way, and the principle should extend to everyone, with as few exceptions as possible. Far from a death tax, it is a life tax on undeserved good luck.
Unbelievably selfish view.
Traditional-Sort6271@reddit
Learn to code.
Gabeeb3DS@reddit
like most taxes inheritance tax is probably the most regressive next to property taxes
but we were told biden and harris were commies not great Britain labour party
Viend@reddit
I don’t agree, property taxes are much more regressive. You literally can’t build your wealth no matter how poor you are, and it gets better when you’re wealthy and you can ask a lawyer to argue for lower taxes.
Inheritance taxes are like infrequent income taxes imo. They only hit those who have some means to support themselves via professional accountants and lawyers. Still bad, but not worse than income taxes, and far better than property taxes.
Frayedstringslinger@reddit
As a dude who grew up on farms and farmed half my life I have a special hate for inheritance taxes. Thankfully not from the UK though.
For those of us who grew up helping on the farm since we could walk and all that jazz it’s basically a double income tax for us.
Eadbutt-Grotslapper@reddit
It’s ok, lots of new young farmers will get lots of good paying jobs to work these farms when the multinational corporate farms inherit the land instead…
It will be like McDonald’s, but farming instead of flipping!
Frayedstringslinger@reddit
Not quite where I am from but yeah that’s a different convo for a different thread (honestly don’t get me started!).
But anyways, fuck inheritance taxes.
Mr_E_Mann1986@reddit
Those greedy farmers, how dare they, "horde land", to grow the very food we rely on to survive.
Duncs1985@reddit
I’m not surprised on the hot take from that steaming pile of shit of a newspaper. I do hope the farmers win; protests are ongoing. Take a leaf out of the French playbook and dump manure outside their offices.
WanderingPulsar@reddit
The idea of introducing more taxes and appointing more government employees with those tax wealth to fix the issues is so stupid that its something that shouldn't have ever been attempted not even once, yet i have lost count on how many times it has been attempted, failed, claimed countless lives destroyed many generations over and over and over again just to create its own governmental oligarchs.
DevilishRogue@reddit
They aren't just evil, but stupid too. Their policies do the literal opposite of their supposed intended effect by significantly increasing the gap between the haves and the have nots as those priced out of farming by this punitive tax are forced to sell to the wealthy to pay this tax. All whilst destroying farming as an industry and worsening food security. It is the sort of thing only an enemy state would seek to do.
Large-Lab3871@reddit
So farmers will have to sell their land to relatives before they die. Or even better idea is put it in a 100 yr trust so that the trustees can continue to run the farm over time by dodging that tax. If that applies in the UK
saggywitchtits@reddit
50 years from now
"Why do we not make food domestically?"
Bones301@reddit
Ahh yes, more government control over farms, because certainly that hasn't gone terribly wrong in the past