What a lot of shite you write. Where does the state debt come from genius?
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Opportunity cost. If you spend money on one thing, it means you can’t spend it on something else
It’s not rhetoric. It’s economics 101. Opportunity cost.
A mixture of private and public is best.
Edit. A mixture allows more spend on more things. Govts can’t sell infinite debt
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So government can spend the investment on schools and hospitals instead. (In the civilised world, obviously not America)
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Brexit affected the middle class, yacht owning, ski holidaying, villa in Tuscany crowd a bit. Boo fucking hoo.











The profits are in return for investment that the government couldn’t otherwise do. What’s the alternative?