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It's not expensive. It's expensive if you don't spend on good quality public services. Without the NHS then there would be no economy. Without social care then
by gghhzzgghhzz 3y ago
It's not expensive. It's expensive if you don't spend on good quality public services.
Without the NHS then there would be no economy.
Without social care then people are taken out of the economy to care for relatives.
Without child care then parents can't afford to go back to work.
The main issue is that an every increasing proportion of money spent on services ends up in profits for private companies, and in the administration of that profit and contracts. If money went directly to public sector workers, then the economy would boom.
- WalterBright 3y ago> Without the NHS then there would be no economy. There was a British economy before the NHS.
- gghhzzgghhzz 3y agoYes, before the massive government programme of rearmament leading up to the war, then there were millions unemployed. Employment contracts and workers rights were nothing like they are today, so if an employee got sick then you could simply fire them and get someone else in on a lower wage. It's not relevant for 2023.
- WalterBright 3y ago> It's not relevant for 2023. How economics works hasn't changed. And Britain turned to the welfare state before WW1.