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And Bill Gates bought a bunch of farmland. See here for the full details of his purchases: https://editions.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?m=61105&i=6889

• rwmj 5y ago
  Don't know about the US, but in the UK ownership of farmland is used as an inheritance tax dodge. Because of land rich but money poor farmers as a voting constituency, farmland is not counted for inheritance tax. The predictable result of this is people like Dyson owning most of the farmland in Lincolnshire (https://whoownsengland.org/2017/09/19/why-is-james-dyson-hoovering-up-land/ https://whoownsengland.org/2017/09/19/why-is-james-dyson-hoo...)