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It's pure ideology to not consider the enormous capital income rich people receive as a cost. If the monarchy ended, the 25% of the Crown Estate the Queen curre
by djrobstep 5y ago
It's pure ideology to not consider the enormous capital income rich people receive as a cost. If the monarchy ended, the 25% of the Crown Estate the Queen currently receives could be kept by the government and used for schools, hospitals etc instead.
And tourism would be unaffected, because all the old buildings etc would still be there just the same. Paris does fine for tourism in spite of a lack of royal family.
- anovikov 5y agoNo, if monarchy ended, the Crown Estate would just become ex-royal family's private property. That was a condition of its formation in the XVIII century. Make no mistake - originally it WAS King's private property. It was only half-reverted to the State when the King (George III in particular) ran into serious financial difficulties.
- djrobstep 5y agoNo it wouldn't - it is literally government property already, and would remain so. Why would the government transfer it to a private citizen that does not own it?