Now we have inheritance tax for farmers, I suggest it is time to abolish it for everyone, for how on earth can the government justify taxing people because they have been unlucky enough to have died.
The first thing most people do when receiving an inheritance is to spend it, paying off their debts, paying off the mortgage, helping their children onto the property ladder, or even getting onto the ladder for the first time for themselves. There are a multitude of things people do when receiving an inheritance and mostly all of the money they spend goes directly back into boosting the economy and helping to employ people, like starting their own business, or even small things like eating out more often. If a large percentage of tax is taken the last thing a recipient of an inheritance is going to do is rush out and spend money, they will guard what is left with a passion and be very frugal with it.
We certainly need to act now, before the farming community is decimated, inheritance tax was originally a tax on the very wealthy, which is not the case now, although it is still a small percentage of the very wealthy who pay the majority of tax in this country. A radical alternative would be for us all to have to pay inheritance tax, 20% or 40% from everyone, although this would be seen as unfair on the poor but surely if it’s unfair on the poor it must also be unfair on those who are slightly better off and for this reason I suggest abolishing inheritance tax for everyone.
I am a retired actor, although to be honest I only retired because I wasn't getting any work due to losing my agent when I became a full time carer to my mother who had dementia. and the option of becoming an unemployed actor/waiter at my age was ludicrous, especially as my waiting skills are non-existent.
Having said I’m retired, I don’t think there really is such a thing as a retired actor for I am still available for work, I just don’t have an agent or any connections with regards to obtaining any worthwhile work.
I have over the years done student films when there is nothing else available, always low paid (if at all) the only incentive was always the promised copy of the finished film for your show reel which nine times out of ten always failed to materialise.
I spent many years looking after my aged mother and shortly after her death I was lucky enough to run into an ex-girlfriend of many years ago and our romance blossomed once again, resulting in us getting married in 2013.
My move to the countryside inspired me to write The Diary of a Country Bumpkin which tells of my continuing dilemmas in dealing with the rigors of the countryside from the unexpectedly large number of pollens, fungal moulds and hay products waiting to attack the unsuspecting townie.
I enjoy writing, see my play Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori on The Wireless Theatre Company, The Plays Wot I Wrote and The Battle of Barking Creek both available on Amazon.co.uk and am very fond of classic cars so my ideal occupation would be acting in a film I had written set in the 1930s/40s, we live in hopes.
I am delighted to say that since venturing to the countryside where space is not quite the premium it is in town, I have due to the availability of two double garages acquired more classic cars to form a small collection the pride of which are a 1947 Bentley Mk VI and a 2000 Bentley Arnage.
My various blogs and websites are continually evolving and I’m sure that by following the appropriate links you will find something which will edify or amuse.
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The Diary of a Country Bumpkin 
You argue the point well, Joe. Good luck with the campaign!
I’m not holding my breath waiting for it to happen though!
No, don’t do that. You’d collapse and have to wait 9 hours for an ambulance!