October 24, 2008

Are you also to tango away your public-debt?

Sir, of course we understand that you do not ask how much it costs when you send out a fire truck to answer an urgent alarm, but from there to imply that it will not costs us any money, as Sir Samuel Brittan, seemingly a Laffer curve believer extraordinaire, like us to think, is a bit too stiff upper lip or too blasé for my taste. “The big myth of taxpayer cost” October 24.

If it was that easy why do we not all have ourselves a couple of fiscal stimulus packages a day? It is just like listening in to the many statements about the US bail-out plan becoming profitable. If so, why does the US Treasury not take over all investment banking activities and save us all from having to pay any taxes?

Incredible amounts of virtual monopoly-money-wealth will burn up in the current crisis but the public debt will remain real; and could become too large to handle and perhaps force you down the Argentinean route, in order to tango it away.