value for money?

[ramtops]

"The Royal Family cost Britons £36.7m last year, equivalent to 61p per taxpayer, figures show."

more here.

are they worth it?

Comments

[aca.livejournal.com]

So, are the Royals worth keeping for a 135m net gain per year, not including the income tax they also pay on their private income. I'd say so.

Surely one can infer profit/loss from a question of worth or and absence thereof?

[captainblue.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

[thewingedteapot.livejournal.com]

But if we got rid of them we could have the income from the Crown Estates (which they only own because their ancestors were better robber barons than ours) and not have to pay them.
The tourists would still come; after all, they still go to Versailles 216 years after the royals left. You just have to keep up the external frills like the Changing of the Guard; that's what the Greeks have done and the tourists still turn up in droves to photograph men in weird white kilts and pop-pom shoes.

[captainblue.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Good point.