I will openly admit that I have a possibly idiosyncratic hatred of nepotism and that possibly stops me from understanding why people won’t see it the way I do, but I really think that yes people might currently think passing on wealth to one’s children is a right and preventing it could be unpopular, but there’s a flip side that Labour can sell that nobody likes nepo babies and why should young men who’ve done nothing and already been given an amazing leg up in life with the best education and social and business contacts also be given millions of pounds to give them another leg up over talented middle and working class kids.
If you change the story from the right to pass on wealth to the snotty little rich kids who’ve already had every benefit getting millions to help them win in business and life over hard working kids who’ve got their through talent and hard work then you could get people to support massive taxes on inheritance over a certain (high) figure to fund schools or the NHS or whatever, or better yet point out that tax has to come from somewhere so better to take the handouts off nepo babies and reduce income tax for middle class workers instead
I will openly admit that I have a possibly idiosyncratic hatred of nepotism and that possibly stops me from understanding why people won’t see it the way I do, but I really think that yes people might currently think passing on wealth to one’s children is a right and preventing it could be unpopular, but there’s a flip side that Labour can sell that nobody likes nepo babies and why should young men who’ve done nothing and already been given an amazing leg up in life with the best education and social and business contacts also be given millions of pounds to give them another leg up over talented middle and working class kids.
If you change the story from the right to pass on wealth to the snotty little rich kids who’ve already had every benefit getting millions to help them win in business and life over hard working kids who’ve got their through talent and hard work then you could get people to support massive taxes on inheritance over a certain (high) figure to fund schools or the NHS or whatever, or better yet point out that tax has to come from somewhere so better to take the handouts off nepo babies and reduce income tax for middle class workers instead