Who Benefited from the British Empire?
Gresham College Lectures
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The Importance of Empire
There wouldn't have been a premium of cutting taxes if you got rid of the empire. Therefore, you would need to have the expensive British navy anyway - even without the empire. Are we sure that Britain was more taxed than France and Germany? Because France and Germany had conscripts. If you add in the cost of taking away two people's, two years of people's lives, perhaps the cost of taxation was actually higher than in Britain.
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