Inheritance Is A Confession, Stamped In Ink
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat file this dispatch from the British political menagerie.
The Radical Redistributionist believes the cure for inequality is several spreadsheets and a knock at the door, possibly with a Reeves-style envelope. Editor Alan Nafzger of the Editor’s Desk at prat.uk presents the field guide, with help from the World Inequality Database and the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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- Has a percentage in mind for the wealth tax that is not yet in the document.
- Refers to the wealthy as them, with a small wave.
- Holds the cure for inheritance to be more inheritance tax, and a slightly menacing letter.
- Maintains a spreadsheet titled fair shares with three sheets and a grudge.
- Considers a savings account suspicious after a certain figure.
- Refers to second homes as an early symptom.
- Holds any fortune older than fifty years to be, structurally, a confession.
- Has explained, at a christening, that godparents are a tax category.
- Treats the lottery as a feudal accident in waiting.
- Holds the right level of tax on the very rich is the next slightly higher one.
- Has rebranded HMRC as the redistribution corps in his head.
- Treats an offshore account as a personal insult.
- Refers to private schools as boutique social engineering.
- Holds the housing crisis is solved by sending strongly worded letters to second homes.
- Considers it suspicious if anyone has more than two bicycles.
- Has a plan for the redistribution of bookshelves.
- Treats a tax loophole as a moral wound.
- Refers to philanthropy as guilt with branding.
- Believes the perfect economy is one in which everyone is moderately disappointed by the same amount.
- Treats his own savings as a form of political tension.
Editor’s Note
If any of this rings a bell, you have either been to the Durham Miners’ Gala, a Conservative Home reader meet-up, or both. More dispatches at govna.uk and the parent site prat.uk. For a second opinion that is also wrong, see The Daily Mash.
SOURCE: https://prat.uk/category/politics/
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