This guy is either being deliberately obtuse or just an idiot considering it's the United KINGDOM, it's in the name the monarchy owns the place, they just chose (correctly for their families survival, mixed results for the people) to hand off all day to day governance to parliament.
And the royal family kind of have all the cards that everyone with a brain tells them to shut the fuck up with trying to get money off the royal family as the country gets the profits from royal lands as part of a deal set up during the reign of King George III.
seriously, the Royal Family aren't a tax drain, they are a net generator of cash for the UK. Not just through tourism but also in the fact that they directly own a MASSIVE amount of productive land in the UK that is privately held and generates a huge amount of income every year that is donated to the kingdom in return for a stipend.
Eh, they understand these things. They really do. They just pretend none of it makes sense because that’s how they win their power game. You can nail down a commie with an absolute victory in a slam dunk debate, and that demon will be shouting the same evil from the rooftops later that same day.
Basically so if we become a Republic, we lose all of that money as it's their lands, unless you want to go full communist (in which case we're more fucked than going back to feudalism) it's their land and money from their land to do with as they wish.
Ever since the 20th century, they typically don't stay Republics and go full communist, be extremely thankful America was created at the time English libertarian views and not after Karl Marx.
in the event of becoming a republic, the state loses the income from something like 16% of the productive land in the country and in return gets to keep a 40 million a year stipend. Check those figures for yourself though since Its right off the top of my head.
Unlike with other monarchies the lands still retained by the house of windsor are in fact DIRECTLY in the name of windsor and not considered royal land. There is a seperate term "royal land" in the commonwealth for "crown owned land" which is actually controlled by the parliament. That bullet was dodged in the 1800's by a very savy monarch and the royal family now directly owns their lands as a family owned trust and the amount of land that they directly own in the UK is past 10%.
This guy is either being deliberately obtuse or just an idiot considering it's the United KINGDOM, it's in the name the monarchy owns the place, they just chose (correctly for their families survival, mixed results for the people) to hand off all day to day governance to parliament.
And the royal family kind of have all the cards that everyone with a brain tells them to shut the fuck up with trying to get money off the royal family as the country gets the profits from royal lands as part of a deal set up during the reign of King George III.
seriously, the Royal Family aren't a tax drain, they are a net generator of cash for the UK. Not just through tourism but also in the fact that they directly own a MASSIVE amount of productive land in the UK that is privately held and generates a huge amount of income every year that is donated to the kingdom in return for a stipend.
Explaining things like income, and profit margin, loss leaders, and revenue streams to communists is like trying to teach a fish to climb trees.
Eh, they understand these things. They really do. They just pretend none of it makes sense because that’s how they win their power game. You can nail down a commie with an absolute victory in a slam dunk debate, and that demon will be shouting the same evil from the rooftops later that same day.
Basically so if we become a Republic, we lose all of that money as it's their lands, unless you want to go full communist (in which case we're more fucked than going back to feudalism) it's their land and money from their land to do with as they wish.
Depends on how your country becomes a Republic. Royal families typically didn't get to keep their land ( or heads ).
Ever since the 20th century, they typically don't stay Republics and go full communist, be extremely thankful America was created at the time English libertarian views and not after Karl Marx.
in the event of becoming a republic, the state loses the income from something like 16% of the productive land in the country and in return gets to keep a 40 million a year stipend. Check those figures for yourself though since Its right off the top of my head.
While that is true that was also the case in other countries that were monarchies. Guess what happened to that land when monarchy was abolished.
Unlike with other monarchies the lands still retained by the house of windsor are in fact DIRECTLY in the name of windsor and not considered royal land. There is a seperate term "royal land" in the commonwealth for "crown owned land" which is actually controlled by the parliament. That bullet was dodged in the 1800's by a very savy monarch and the royal family now directly owns their lands as a family owned trust and the amount of land that they directly own in the UK is past 10%.