Post covid apocalypse

Bobajob

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The cost of this covid 19 is I believe going to hit us all very soon when we return to normal (though I feel we have lost that now) and the payback will have to start.
Where will our government get the finances to refund our way out of this calamity?
 

Woosh

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PSBR for this financial year is estimated at £332 billions. That's roughly £5,000 per person in the UK. Next year's PSBR may be less thanks to import duty (which goes to the EU at the moment) but will still be very substantial.
Perhaps a wealth tax on the UK's non-domicile residents.
 
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Bobajob

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PSBR for this financial year is estimated at £332 billions. That's roughly £5,000 per person in the UK. Next year's PSBR may be less thanks to import duty (which goes to the EU at the moment) but will still be very substantial.
Perhaps a wealth tax on the UK's non-domicile residents.
yes thanks for that but where do the government get the funds?
 

Benjahmin

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They print it ! They get banks and pension funds to buy bonds which say, ' Lend us your money and we'll pay it back in X years'. When X years arrive they don't have the money to pay back ('cos they're in debt) so they borrow more, or print it. If the gov needs to borrow £1billion but can only sell £500million in bonds, the gov buys the rest of the bonds. So the gov buys it's own debt with money that it created out of thin air and pays itself the interest. I know - welcome to the cooky land of high finance. Here's the real kicker. The money to pay interest doesn't exist, so they have to create it:eek:.
Honestly if you or I tried this kind of thing we would be arrested and chatged with running a Ponzi sheme (look it up)and thrown in jail.
As the created money comes out of thin air - not based on labour, goods, property, precious metals, or wealth creation of any kind - then it is WORTH nothing. In fact, as most money created today is digital, that makes it not even worth the paper it's not printed on.
Do not believe treasury/bank of England figures of 2% inflation, these are highly massaged and 'conveiniantly presented.
 
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KirstinS

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Where will our government get the finances to refund our way out of this calamity?
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Our children, our children's children and probably beyond
 

vfr400

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Just like the average person most government borrowing is based on future income. The more income you have the quicker you can pay back the debt. Future governments will have to raise taxes to do this. Something to look forward to.
I've reported you for posting in the wrong forum.
 
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GooserName

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I guess there is no such thing as post-covid. This thing is with us forever, as flu and other stuff. The panic ruined much more of economy than the virus itself. However there appeared new opportunities too. For example you can use https://artk.ai and hire project-based web developers to make everything that is needed for your business online.
 

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