{"id":1316,"date":"2013-04-28T23:10:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T23:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astarmathsandphysics.com\/tutor_profiles\/paul_smith\/paul_smiths_blog\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2013-04-28T23:10:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T23:10:59","slug":"labours-magic-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2013\/04\/labours-magic-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour’s Magic Money"},"content":{"rendered":"

The British labour party has a long history of spending money that doesn’t exist.
\nThey did this by borrowing it or taxing the public to excess and I have been thinking how they can avoid this in future. They should start printing a new currency, a bit like bitcoin, that will be limited to a few tens of billions. When they have spent it, they can start printing ‘New Magic Money’ and so on.
\nThere will be nothing as magic as Labour’s magic money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The British labour party has a long history of spending money that doesn’t exist. They did this by borrowing it or taxing the public to excess and I have been thinking how they can avoid this in future. 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