Public funding of the royal family should be optional

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Not sure if this has been duscussed before but…

What if the tax payer could opt out of funding the royal family? And opt in if they want to contribute?

It should be optional

Why not?

Great idea!

Why just the RF?

Why can't we opt out of any public spending we think is a complete waste of money, and I can think of plenty of things I don't want to pay for.

"corporation tax and inheritance tax "

they will have the services with the best accountancy firms and at a guess pay very little tax's.

No one would opt in

Question for all of you supporters: How much are you voluntary willing to pay each year should this utopia be possible? Would you limit yourself to the mere 70p or round it up to £1?

I happened to know that the royal family's net worth is £22 billion according to Forbes. I also know verifiable factual data about the other things in my comment so I guess I am that someone.

@Crispsandcola Forbes includes the crown jewels and Buckingham palace in their estates, and they don't own either of them.

Defintely should be optional OP. There'll be a queue of p'd off royals, carrying armfuls of tiaras, outside the pawn shops of Gloucestershire. I'd pay to see it.

Why can’t you opt out of funding the royal family?

Same reason you can’t opt out of funding the military, or prisons, or anything else. It would be impossible to administer and too many people would choose not to pay for things they dislike or don’t care about.

I remember some people withholding a percentage of their tax as a protest against military intervention in other countries. (1970s or 80s? Or Iraq? I forget the details.) I think they were prosecuted same as people who evaded tax for non-principled reasons.

I can't stand the Royal Family, they have opted out of paying certain taxes so I wish I could opt out of paying anything towards them.

There was no inheritance tax paid on the Queens estate because she changed the law with the help of Tony Blair before she died. Worked nicely for him because he then got a Knighthood.

I don't understand why people fawn over them. I find it really strange. They is nothing special about them other than they happen to be born into a massively wealthy family.

King Charles isn't particularly nice and he's certainly not particularly intelligent.

Agree with everything you say, but opting out of paying for the RF is a logistical impossibility.
We can't pick and choose.

Once again, you are very interested in discussing exactly much money these incredibly wealthy people have whilst ignoring the point I was making.
King Charles alone currently has a net worth (that is publicly known about) of £610 million.

I hope you realise that, just because the word billionaire cannot be verifiably applied to one single member of this family due to missing information about their true financial records, it does not negate the immorality of their actions.

😂😂😂The image is stuck. Jostling outside a bhf shop while arguing quietly in their posh a cents. A few fainting each time a non aristocrat walks out of that shop. Their despair at the possibility that that pleb could buy one of their wares

Sounds like you desire an uprising. Good luck with that.