I've been trying, patiently and politely for the last several pages of this thread to explain the concept in play here, and even now it's still being misunderstood, misrepresented and ignored to the extent that dunover saw fit to imbue himself with the ability
to actually read my mind and suggest I didn't believe what I was saying.
So if at the tail end of that I've said something that is perhaps slightly rude, then I apologise, but bloody hell this is hard work.
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This is about the massive accumulation of wealth and assets by the rich and super-rich during Covid, in which £450bn of new government debt was created, and yet the ultimate beneficiaries of that massive money printing programme are being asked to do bugger all to pay any of it back - and they're using the money they were gifted to buy up anything and everything they can, whilst your average worker is paying the highest rates of tax they have for seventy years.
Furlough was the right thing to do, that's not the point I'm debating here, the problem is around how that £450bn is recouped in its aftermath, with inflation pushing 10%, wage 'rises' in negative territory, and worse to come, why does the burden of repaying that £450bn fall on the people who, in the main, didn't get to keep any of it?