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2024-08-02 14:08:14 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 88FF44F134CE7C85F7A44D93ED2F8448A59D66D9B736EA28498B0FE84E4C49C2
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Original Note:
The video repeatedly compares the UK finances to a credit card, wallet or household budget. This is not the case, and the UK issues its own currency and the govt lends to itself on it's own terms. https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2019/11/11/the-uk-government-is-not-like-a-household-and-does-not-have-a-household-type-budget-thats-because-it-quite-literally-makes-the-money-the-rest-of-us-use-so-lets-stop-pretending-it-has-a-credi/
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