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Originally Posted by Zeke
Sounds like they are owned and supported by the state while surrendering any income to help offset the costs. It goes on to say the Queen gets over 7 million pounds a year for her "duties."
Not a bad stipend.
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Thanks for looking that up Widebody and Zeke ...
Leach - plain and simple. While there is some representative function (think appendix!) left, they are completely useless. Sure, those boys join the military. For what? So they have to add another hundred soldiers protecting them?
Even
if they paid themselves from their investment income, housing or whatever else they own. You do realize that they did not earn any of that either. It was squeezed out of their people over hundreds of years.
Some old aristocrat families blew through their wealth in Europe and now are selling their art, castles and whatnot BACK TO THE PEOPLE. That means
today's tax payers are buying back the goods that were taken from their ancestors, to support today's aristocrats' lifestyle. Talk about the gift that keeps on giving. It makes me cringe.
Many of you on this board are of European descent but grew up in the US with several generations separating you from the old world. I am still close enough to my ancestors and talked to many of them growing up to see what an effed up life you had as an average person over there until about 80 years ago. That's 100% thanks to hundreds of years of suppression by monarchists and the church. I really have to give respect to the ones that GTFO and hopped on a boat to the US. Shoot, I am glad myself to have landed here, where none of those 1000 year old structures ever existed.
Sorry for the rant - I feel better.
You can talk about tatas again now.
G