Quote Originally Posted by Peter View Post
True. Perhaps I should just sit on here and use these examples every time you pour scorn on people for expressing views that are slightly less silly than those we are presented with by our politicians.

In a sense, by the way, it IS how economies work. When you have a taxation ceiling, precipitated by a post THatcher consensus on the basic rate of income tax and an unwillingness to enforce corporation tax, public spending has a ceiling as well. With finite resources each area of expenditure constitutes a choice- a pound spent here is a pound less available there.

Guns and butter, b. Was always thus.
Not at all, because smart people are always able to come up with totally new revenue streams.

For instance, long ago, my hounds trained my young sons to open the big outdoor larder we use for smoking various meats, so they could help themselves. Of course, it's forbidden for children to enter but they weren't to know, were they; they're just kids. Thus, at a stroke, the swindling, brutish canines were able to almost double their daily intake of food until their villainy was discovered after some weeks.