Inheritance Tax

The United Kingdom government has decided to freeze the limit for Inheritance Tax over the next few years. Taking inflation into account, the limit has effectively been lowered, bringing many working people who are not especially rich into the scheme.
The excuse for this measure is that it will help pay for state provision of care for the elderly.
Once again, money is taken out of ordinary people’s hands and placed in the power of the bureaucracy.
Once again we are weakened, and they are strengthened.
Instead of looking after ourselves we are robbed and then, when impoverished, invited to apply for state assistance.
The Inheritance Tax is an attack on society. It is an attack on the remains of the gift economy and an attack on the family.
All peasants work not just for ourselves, but for our children too. In a family, work is a round of rights and obligations, and our greatest joy is to nurture future generations.
But the bureaucrats want to destroy our peasant self sufficiency.
They want to destroy the link between the generations.
Already, our children are taken from us and indoctrinated in their so called ‘schools’.
Now they want to steal the material gifts of one generation to another. They want our deaths to be final, that nothing of our sweat and toil can be passed on. They want our children to be left orphans, with no link to their families or their ancestors.
The bureaucratic vision is a few years of senseless consumption, and then endless oblivion.
But to be human is to want to live on in our children, in our children’s children, and failing that, in our nieces and nephews and our friends’ children.
To give is to live, and we want to give to our children.   
But the bureaucrats do not want us to have dealings with family, friends or neighbours.
They want us to be dependent on Authority.
Wealth and independence is sucked out of society to feed the cancer of the state.
The Inheritance Tax has nothing to do with government finances, social care, or indeed, ‘fairness’.
It is an attack on each person by the state and its worshippers, whose only aim is to isolate and control.