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Andrew Mountbatten Windsor's Daughters Are Still Receiving Rent-Free Royal Accommodation (bylinetimes.com)
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[–] 11 points 4 months ago (10 children)

It's tax money. It could be used for better causes.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (9 children)

    Is it tax money, or money he was paid then he is paying out?

    I mean its a technical difference and I am not really defending anything, I just don't know how it works really.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (8 children)

    The King owns land called the crown estate. He surrenders the profit to the treasury who then pays him back a small fraction of, which he also pays tax on.

    The King does not get funded by tax money, just a small portion of what his family's land makes.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    The King owns land called the crown estate.

    Well he shouldn't.

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  • [–] -2 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Such a proposition is unrealistic. It's his family's land, he's the heir. At least he surrenders it to the government, unlike most land-owners.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    It's his family's land, he's the heir.

    His family has avoided inheritance tax for centuries. It's totally realistic. Look at all the Republican countries.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Communist and anti-colonialist land reforms show that such a proposition is not unrealistic at all you are just a bootlicker monarchist.

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  • [–] -2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    It is unrealistic. Communism has never worked.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    China is currently on track to beat the west at its own game, and this is post maoist land reform. So regardless of whether you believe China is communist or not, their land reform has functioned perfectly well and has produced a system that is at least as functional as what we have in the west.

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