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UrbonMaximus@feddit.uk 3 weeks agoWhat a strange take. I definitely think that we should support farmers, but not by excepting them from inheritance taxes. We should incentives the correct things - If they work the land give them subsidies.
If you don’t tax inheritance you’re creating a generational wealth hoarding. Let’s take Jeremy Clarkson for example - he openly stated that the reason he bought farmland was so that his children can inherit it tax free. If he didn’t have a farming tv show, he would lease that land to actual farmers.
It might be different in other parts of the world, but in the UK, that has relatively high population density, sitting on farm land for generations can be very very lucrative. Most of the richest pieces of real estate in this country were farmland a century or two ago.
Digit@lemmy.wtf 3 weeks ago
My parents sold the farm, I think, largely, on accountant’s advice, to avoid the inheritance tax, or something.
So now I don’t have the farm I grew up presuming was to be mine (or other relatives’) one day, and instead see it get eaten up in consolidation by the rich, like all the other small farms around, merging.
This is not good.
Yay for sensible subsidies. Nay for tax ploys to feed agribusiness monopolies.
UrbonMaximus@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Sorry that your parents had to sell, but it sounds like you’re blaming the wrong people.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If the inheritance taxes are the reason his parents had to sell then it stands to reason that the people who introduced the inheritance taxes in parliament are to blame, no?
UrbonMaximus@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
I don’t see how inheritance tax is to blame. You’d pay less on inheritance tax than paying income/capital gains tax on selling your land. I suspect other reasons were at play.
Digit@lemmy.wtf 3 weeks ago
Who do you think it sounds like I’m blaming?
I was not aware of playing the blame game at all.