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Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate... by glenjamin on Friday March 24, 2023 @02:34PM (#35293553)
The government can also buy things (like infrastructure) and employ people to provide public services, which directly injects money into the economy by paying it to the people who do that work.

The current UK government has not been doing much of this.

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Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate... by DeathArrow on Friday March 24, 2023 @03:58PM (#35294605)
> The government can also buy things (like infrastructure) and employ people to provide public services, which directly injects money into the economy by paying it to the people who do that work

We did that in comunism with the known results.

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