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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

SpinScore: https://spinscore.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.euronews.com%2F2024%2F11%2F20%2Fthousands-of-uk-farmers-descend-on-parliament-to-protest-against-inheritance-tax-hike

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 days ago

Most intergenerational wealth is lost within a few generations actually.

There would be 2 things id do to fix tax

  1. Resource tax for every kg of material dug/pumped out of the ground.
  2. Land value tax based on the developed value of the land
  3. If i had global control then id do a 75% capital gains tax on all gains over 5million