Comments by "Pob" (@goodlookinouthomie1757) on "Farm taxes: Young farmer and professor clash on protests over inheritance tax" video.

Or that ignorant people will just believe anything an "expert" tells them.
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I call it a long theft break.
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@93ct She didn't lose the argument. What she was saying was true and he simply got his figures wrong. It's amazing how so many people can't see this.
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@ffotograffydd Like many, my family are landowners of a modest sized farm. We work our fingers to the bone and we are struggling just as much as a tenant. Except our farm is in our blood... it's like a member of the family and we would be just as devastated if we lost it. I get that it seems like we are wealthy from the point of view of someone whose whole life has been urban and who has no understanding of the countryside or rural life. But to us, the value of the land is irrelevant. It's value is what we can grow on it and we would have to be facing destitution to even consider selling.
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He did a whole video on his channel about this. I'm a farmer's son and I've watched Richards videos for a few months and thought them quite good. But I couldn't believe the naivety of his views on this fact when I heard them just the other day and I'm hesitant to believe anything else he says now.
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Richard is just another example of the disconnect people have from food growth. Anyone suggesting that multi generationsl farming familes can just sell up (presumably to make way for someone else to move in to do it) is dreadfully naive about the whole industry.
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Blah blah BBC talking point blah blah
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@Jimmy_Cream Yeah and it's not as though they passed a law to steal farmers' land from them or anything is it...
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 @rugbygirlsdadg We get into a war. Global supply routes dry up. Oops... nobody growing any food. Famine in Britain.
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An accountant is an expert in accountancy. A farmer is an expert in farming. Neither ought presume to lecture the other in his own field.
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@benghiskahn3673 I couldn't actually believe how wrong he was on the most basic points and he even talked down the last as she tried to correct him on the his key misunderstanding.
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His argument is that he farmers are the eggs we need to break to make the utopian omelette we all want. Sounds pretty Marxist to me. And his argument is wrong on the most basic facts by the way. Try reading it up for yourself.
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IHT is a moral obscenity on its face. Nobody should have to pay it.
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@philthrelfall5294 The problem is that farmers will receive a huge tax bill which will be hundreds of thousands, if not millions for even a modest sized farm. So the only option would be to sell land and many farms, who already struggle to be viable with the maximum yield on their existing land, will be forced out of business.
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@timcronin-v6w It's estates over 1 million. Which is basically pretty much all the farms that grow any significant amount of produce.
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I also agree with his broader point that the land value prices are perverse and the system needs reform. But it doesn't change the fact that this tax will disenfranchise a lot, if not most farmers from large chunks of their land and put many out of business. If this must be a policy then it needs to be introduced small and then increased slowly to give farmers time to prepare. Nobody can suddenly come up with a million quid tax bill just like that.
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