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How long do you think the current UK economic and employment downturn will last for?
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Originally posted by Doggy Styles View PostThat's where we were heading.Comment
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Originally posted by AtW View Post
Debt is at critical point when you have to borrow again in order to pay off lenders - this has been happening in the West for a long time now, so the mountain is so large that interest payments alone (at current artificially depressed rates) are massive: £73 bln per year predicted for 2014/15. That's over £1000 for each person in the UK including children and elder, or £3.5k per household per year interest payments only.
That's about the amount VAT raises I think, so in order to pay just for those interest payments VAT would have go go up to 35-40%.
Yes, the debt is THAT massive.
Let me put it another way. This debt helps shield us, the general public, from the worst effects of Government and EU interference and gives more leeway for private enterprise to step in and achieve things much more efficiently than meddling Governments ever could. Their impotence, trapped behind their wall of national debt, is our freedom. Can't you see that?
National debt is NOT LIKE private debt, as those pathetic Daily Wailish "£1000 per person" comparisons would suggest. It'll never need paying off and while it persists (as it has for the last two centuries at least) we can sleep more soundly knowing that tyranny is far less likely.
P.S. Having lived in Russia, you of all people Alexie should understand that debts afflicting the USSR and other communist countries led to more freedom.Work in the public sector? Read the IR35 FAQ hereComment
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostExplaining counterintuitive economic concepts to AtW (and one or two others round here) is like trying to teach a chimp quantum field theory.
Let me put it another way. This debt helps shield us, the general public, from the worst effects of Government and EU interference and gives more leeway for private enterprise to step in and achieve things much more efficiently than meddling Governments ever could. Their impotence, trapped behind their wall of national debt, is our freedom. Can't you see that?
National debt is NOT LIKE private debt, as those pathetic Daily Wailish "£1000 per person" comparisons would suggest. It'll never need paying off and while it persists (as it has for the last two centuries at least) we can sleep more soundly knowing that tyranny is far less likely.
P.S. Having lived in Russia, you of all people Alexie should understand that debts afflicting the USSR and other communist countries led to more freedom.
I'm afraid things have moved on since the 1960's and the West is no longer the dominant force that it was.Comment
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostExplaining counterintuitive economic concepts to AtW (and one or two others round here) is like trying to teach a chimp quantum field theory.
Let me put it another way. This debt helps shield us, the general public, from the worst effects of Government and EU interference and gives more leeway for private enterprise to step in and achieve things much more efficiently than meddling Governments ever could. Their impotence, trapped behind their wall of national debt, is our freedom. Can't you see that?
National debt is NOT LIKE private debt, as those pathetic Daily Wailish "£1000 per person" comparisons would suggest. It'll never need paying off and while it persists (as it has for the last two centuries at least) we can sleep more soundly knowing that tyranny is far less likely.
I think you are missing the point completely, that if the debt keeps rising as it is, we will one day be paying more in interest than we can affiord to spend on public services.
But if that's OK I think someone should tell Ireland and Greece to chill out a bit!Comment
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostNational debt is NOT LIKE private debt, as those pathetic Daily Wailish "£1000 per person" comparisons would suggest.
With public debt everyone finances - even the poor as they'd have to be paying extra VAT in a month time.
Effectively Brown turned national debt into new deferred taxation.
P.S. Having lived in Russia, you of all people Alexie should understand that debts afflicting the USSR and other communist countries led to more freedom.Comment
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostExplaining counterintuitive economic concepts to AtW (and one or two others round here) is like trying to teach a chimp quantum field theory.
Let me put it another way. This debt helps shield us, the general public, from the worst effects of Government and EU interference and gives more leeway for private enterprise to step in and achieve things much more efficiently than meddling Governments ever could. Their impotence, trapped behind their wall of national debt, is our freedom. Can't you see that?
National debt is NOT LIKE private debt, as those pathetic Daily Wailish "£1000 per person" comparisons would suggest. It'll never need paying off and while it persists (as it has for the last two centuries at least) we can sleep more soundly knowing that tyranny is far less likely.
P.S. Having lived in Russia, you of all people Alexie should understand that debts afflicting the USSR and other communist countries led to more freedom.
I always looked at the National finances in the same way. I never understood why some of these concepts you are discussing would alter that
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Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post
So taxpayers don't have to make those interest payments then, £50 billion a year and rising?
.. if the debt keeps rising as it is, we will one day be paying more in interest than we can affiord to spend on public services.Work in the public sector? Read the IR35 FAQ hereComment
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Originally posted by moder8or View PostThe downturn will end when the country is viable. In other words when we export more than we import and have a surplus GDPJob motivation: how the powerful steal from the stupid.Comment
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