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Re: One year on from the election – politicalbetting.com
Basically the government causes a problem with its own laziness and incompetence, then undertakes disastrous measures meant to manage it, but which fail and cause lots of other problems in the proces…1 -
Re: Political authority is a lot like virginity, once it is gone it is very difficult to get back
By the way, here is some more on the IMF for those that think that it will bail us out. For an IMF programme to have any effect at all, it would have to be a decent size, say 10% of our GDP, or about…7 -
Re: Political authority is a lot like virginity, once it is gone it is very difficult to get back
FPT That only works if the government can argue that bringing in the IMF was essential because they need a huge foreign currency loan, which as I have argued they can't. It just about worked in the m…3 -
Re: Two NYC bets you should be making – politicalbetting.com
No, because: a) all our government debt is in our own currency, so a big foreign currency loan wouldn't help us b) unlike Greece or Ireland, we print our own currency - if we want more, we can get it…3 -
Re: Two NYC bets you should be making – politicalbetting.com
We should absolutely be a soft touch on tax for HNWIs because of the non-taxation benefits they bring to the country. This is always a difficult point for socialists to grasp, but they aren't just AT…1
