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Yesterday evening, I attended the Fabian Society’s debate ‘How can we defend the inheritance tax?’ although it might have been more aptly labelled a strategy meeting on how to set-up a pro-tax alternative to the Taxpayers Alliance. For when I had a chance to speak, the only one present to deny the explicit premise that inheritance tax was morally justifiable, the room itself seemed briefly to close in on me. While responses to my argument were never less than polite and well mannered, the initial incensed glares from the front of the room gave the impression that in a less civilized age I could have wound up being sacrificed inside a giant wicker construct of George Bernard Shaw.

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