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Old 14-10-2015, 01:28 PM #1
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Originally Posted by DemolitionRed View Post
Unfortunately, most people look at the fiscal budget the same way they look at their personal domestic budget. Osborne relies on us doing just that because it’s a guaranteed way of making ‘budget surplus’ look like a good thing.

To have a government surplus we would have to push debt into the private sector and that will hurt growth and increase our personal debt.
Playing with words. There are always borrowers and lenders. For the prosperity of the country, you run at a surplus. Anything else is pure codswallop
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