Really nothing symbolizes utter stagnation and totally immovable social barriers and
hierarchy like the Queen and the Royal Family. The Royals cost British taxpayers a hundred million
dollars a year. Charles inherits the Queen's 500 million dollar fortune and because he is a royal,
he pays no inheritance tax. The royal family according to Forbes Magazine is worth 28
billion dollars. One should really take note of this as the British National Health system is in
terrible shape and collapse. That 28 billion would be certainly helpful to restore National Health
or restore safety in public housing. Every family will lose an average of a thousand pounds
this year- not a weight, of their currency. And they'll lose all of that money
because Britain has a 10 percent inflation in part caused by energy costs. This lavish funeral
and lavish display of wealth is at the same time as Britain is going through a terrible recession.
As I said, the average British family will lose a thousand pounds this year,
and they don't have much to begin with. It's predicted in the New Statesman and in
the Resolution Foundation, which is not a radical foundation, that the British will have continuous
downfalls in their income: the longest they've ever experienced, the biggest losses in 60 years.
Household incomes are supposed to fall for the next 19 quarters
and there will be a recession. This is a kind of conservative ideology of life. You can't
tax those at the top because wealth has its own nobility. And the nobility should keep its wealth.
Instead, we should tax the poor Brits who are losing money and working as hard as they can.
Their idea is that British wealth is an asset in itself, so why should it be taxed? The Royal
family embodies the opposite of the idea that hard work will pay off, that you will be rewarded
for your aspirations, for your innovation- that you can make it if you really try. Nope,
doesn't look this like it this year. And in the United States, we should know better.
We were founded on the opposite of monarchy. Our principles are supposed to be
that just because you're born into wealth doesn't mean you deserve to continue that wealth,
even though American inheritance tax went from 600, 000 that you could leave during
the beginning of Reagan's era to 11 million now, so that everybody gets "an equal start."
We have to question the monarchy. We have to question: why? What do ordinary citizens get out
of paying for this when they are immiserated more and more every year? Is it the symbol of British
power that they used to have when they killed millions in India? About 20 million people were
slaughtered in India when they were establishing the Royal control there and holding on to it. Even
in a tiny country that they had like Kenya, they killed a million and a half people.
Or in New Zealand where they slaughtered the Maoris or Australia. Why? Why should
we worship that and why should we pay for it, especially when the money is sorely needed?