{"id":33254,"date":"2016-04-20T13:57:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T12:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=33254"},"modified":"2016-04-20T13:57:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T12:57:20","slug":"a-government-running-out-of-money-is-as-likely-as-us-running-out-of-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/04\/20\/a-government-running-out-of-money-is-as-likely-as-us-running-out-of-miles\/","title":{"rendered":"A government running out of money is as likely as us running out of miles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a conversation last evening during which I was reminded that the claim that a government with its own currency might run out money is as ridiculous as the suggestion from a road engineer that they might run out of miles. Or that football might run out of goals. Or cricket out of runs, come to that.<\/p>\n<p>None of those things is possible.<\/p>\n<p>We should laugh at all such suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>Our Chancellor quite ludicrously suggests one might be true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a conversation last evening during which I was reminded that the claim that a government with its own currency might run out money<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/04\/20\/a-government-running-out-of-money-is-as-likely-as-us-running-out-of-miles\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}