Apparently, the Monarchy of England has come under some recent scrutiny. The actual costs of having the Royal Family live (and to some degree work) but have everyone else in the country pay their bills is increasingly viewed with little favour. As unlike a working class family, this one gets the best of everything (nice house(s)!) and works to essentially be able to say they work for a living.
That actual cost of supporting the Royal Family is not outrageous at 66p per person (see it here). And yet, despite a long history and the tradition of a constitutional monarchy, the U.K. is flirting with the idea (as seen with the slow erosion of power from the House of Lords) of having them get off the public dole.
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Well, let's think about this for a moment...shall we...
The taxes paid in England as elsewhere in the world go towards ensuring the maintenance of Government (i.e., roads, bus-lines, railroads, mail service, and other public goods). In England the tax (66p) for patriotism seems quite low considering the English strong favor of Royalty as expressed by popular culture depictions of nobility and the enormous size of the Queen's hat.
For most Americans, who hate paying taxes in the first place, a few billion a week seems appropriate for their patriotism. It seems to me, the British are getting off cheap compared to their linguistic compadres across the pond.
Bitches...
-Grande
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