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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Can you justify royal list expenditure? Can you justify Duchy of Cornwall - just that one for now - evading an £18 million tax bill last year alone by claming royal priv?

EDIT - since you've edited too. Who pays for Obama? Mainly his supporters. This takes us into difficult territory but essentially we've run the same situation since reformation.
(, Tue 18 Sep 2012, 20:19, 1 reply, 13 years ago)
Not really.
I think It would be better if most (not all) crown property became public property. That's not intentional socialism by the way.
(, Tue 18 Sep 2012, 20:22, Reply)
I ought to be a rampant capitalist.
As I get older I'm seriously heading towards responsible anarchy.

There's no model - 1849 Berlin is the only slightly effective one. The Paris commune was fucked from the start.
(, Tue 18 Sep 2012, 20:28, Reply)
Is there such a thing as responsible anarchy?

(, Tue 18 Sep 2012, 20:29, Reply)
Not yet
And I don't suppose there ever could be but it's an ideal.
(, Tue 18 Sep 2012, 20:35, Reply)

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