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scotty-doesnt_know t1_ja3aeqe wrote

Cant believe they still have a monarchy. take all the royal property, assign it a gov owned historical property, keep it open to the public so they can pay to see it, and the gov and people can still get their royal revenue. And this way you wont have royals spending tax payer money.

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Brilliant_Jewel1924 t1_ja3d6h2 wrote

It costs each taxpayer a whopping 1.29 pounds ($1.48) per person a year to “fund” the monarchy. I think it’s going to be okay. 😒

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ST616 t1_ja5gx33 wrote

£1.29 per person means over £86,000,000 per year. It's not the biggest waste of public money, but it's still over 86 million going to one random family with no benefit to the rest of us.

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scotty-doesnt_know t1_ja3e0cm wrote

that is still lit millions. which could be put to better use and public programs.

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dirkdiggler2011 t1_ja473rm wrote

The British royal family generates millions of pounds worth of tourism for the United Kingdom each year. It is estimated the monarchy’s contributes £2.5 billion to the British economy each year.

Yes, it costs money but the return is huge.

Edit - The facts actually disprove your "reality". How problematic.

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jervoise t1_ja4rej1 wrote

Whilst I don’t mind the monarchy, France also generates loads in tourism, without the expenditure for a royal family.

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dirkdiggler2011 t1_ja4sl86 wrote

True but should the British abandon fish and chips because France has great pastry?

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ST616 t1_ja5fvb4 wrote

The tourists that come to see Buckingham Palace won't stop coming just because the family that lives there moves out. They generate literally nothing to the economy.

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froodydoody t1_ja76dsq wrote

If the UK government got their hands on the crown estate it’d be sold off to some Russian/Chinese/Arab billionaire tosser within a year.

It may seem somewhat ironic to you, but being out of the hands of the government is a net positive for the people of the UK. Because the crown effectively has to justify its own existence, it in turn has a vested interest in keeping its holdings, stopping them from being asset stripped by foreigners.

I’m not against the idea of an elected head of state, but only in the situation that the crown continues to exist as a wholly separate entity from the government.

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