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Re:The candy stores of Oxford Street by growse on Monday April 25, 2022 @11:15AM (#31156038)
This analogy is asinine because countries are not people. Their finances don't work even remotely similarly.
Re:The candy stores of Oxford Street by 88 on Monday April 25, 2022 @11:22AM (#31156148)
Please enlighten me on how people and countries differ in the basic concepts of having income, outgoings, and debts
Re:The candy stores of Oxford Street by growse on Monday April 25, 2022 @11:33AM (#31156312)
For example, people don't tend to own their own currency. I'm sure you can think of other differences.
Re:The candy stores of Oxford Street by 88 on Monday April 25, 2022 @11:52AM (#31156614)
Does that mean the UK doesn’t have income, outgoings and debts?
Re:The candy stores of Oxford Street by darrenf on Monday April 25, 2022 @12:51PM (#31157518)
It's much too reductive a framing, IMO. Public sector spending is not, majorly, an "outgoing" of "the UK" in any reasonably comparable way to an individual's spend - rather, public sector money generally funds services within the UK which employ individuals who a) pay income taxes directly b) spend their income in other parts of the economy, where VAT/corporation tax/etc feed back to HMRC, and companies profit and grow.

It's really nothing like an "I've spent £5 on a beer and now that fiver is gone forever" outgoing, in scale or effect.