VAT-free Friday, it'll be wild (View Post)

Technically I think it's automatically deflationary and makes the CPI go down? (View Post)

There's that, OTOH they know in advance that it's going to happen so you potentially delay purchases before the rate changes, then bring them forward again at some point in the future when you put th… (View Post)

My "I'm doing my part" for that (after a week consolidating servers and hiding under the kotatsu a lot) was to fuck off to Essex. People will no doubt mock this for out-of-touch citizen-of-… (View Post)

It'll make it slightly cheaper when you buy stuff? The government can't do much: Fundamentally there's not enough stuff to go around because of the war and covid in China. If everyone tries to buy th… (View Post)