Originally posted by bobhope
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Previously on "5 best ways to cut down Britain's budget deficit"
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1. Legalise drugs. Not such a daft idea. Decimalise the use of drugs, allow testing of purity so that additives such a talc are detected and removed. Allow hard drugs on prescription. The saving would be addicts not getting ill through contamination, drug addicts not turning to stealing from cars or prostitution, less police time wasted, less insurance claims.
2. Legalise prostitution. Remove prostitution from the streets and take care of vulnerable girls (and men) especially drug addicts. Legalise brothels and run heath checks. This would stop trafficking and abuse. It would stop wasting police time.
3. Legalise firearms. This is already legal, you can apply for a licence.
4. Put Nu Liebor thieves into prison and charge admission fees. Public hanging of all MPs. Bring in democracy.
5. Charge £1 duty per post on CUK, £10 for posts in TDP... No, CUK to run an interim government as long as we can claim expenses.
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Originally posted by AtW View PostThat would cause collapse in tax revenue - money have to move around as at pretty much every step they get taxed one way or another.
However, if everyone else deliberately stopped spending money to cause the revenue collapse as you describe then the government would have to address the issue rather than hide it.
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Originally posted by HairyArsedBloke View PostStop spending money.
That is not going to happen though.
When Denis Healey went to the IMF in 1976 he didn't really need to - the Treasury civil servants got their sums wrong.
On the plus side, the conditions imposed by the IMF did start to put the economy back on the road to recovery long before Thatcher arrived.
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Originally posted by HairyArsedBloke View PostStop spending money.
Did you see that Ben Bernanke is on the front cover of Time magazine as "Man of the Year"
With that, and Obama as recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, 2009 has been the most Kafkaesque year for a long time.
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Originally posted by AtW View Post1. Legalise drugs
2. Legalise prostitution.
3. Legalise firearms.
4. Put Nu Liebor thieves into prison and charge admission fees
5. Charge £1 duty per post on CUK, £10 for posts in TDP...
Sorted!
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