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I read once that £$many trillions lie offshore lacking the incentive to launder for a good return.

Talk of £400 billion for Covid. A lot was peed against the wall at lockdown BBQs and must represent a lot of tax income. People shopped in supermarkets and online. Most of that circulated, paying van drivers and the delivery system, never mind the VAT returns.

My question is, if you make people rich they must spend it somewhere. Make investment attractive and the flow reverses, the jobs accrue and tax and VAT income goes up. If only we had governments who realise such basic economics.

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