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Originally Posted by djchameleon
Why don't they use the tax money for the people in the country they are living in instead of giving it away to charities? You seem to have more information about this than I do but based off of what you just said it doesn't seem like they are using the tax payers money to help out the tax payers. They are using that money to help everyone else around the world and to fund grand weddings.
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They do use it for the people in the country they are living in as well AND they pay their own taxes to fund services in the country. Not only does the Queen make money on tourism but also surrenders the Crown Estates to the Government and accepts in exchange a civil list of which she pays back much. The income to the state from Royal Estates is over 130M pounds per year, without tourism taken into account. So that is a lot of money generated FOR the country and the country's people.
And then on top of that they do a plethora of work for the other realms that they are responsible for in the Commonwealth (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, etc) like how I mentioned William and Harry's relief work in Australia, for example.
Except for Christmas Day and and Easter Day, the Queen doesn't get any other days off in the year from official red boxes and engagements and duties that the royal family participate in. So they don't just sit on their asses and do nothing basically.