{"id":54117,"date":"2020-11-24T08:35:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T08:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=54117"},"modified":"2020-11-24T08:35:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T08:35:49","slug":"what-part-of-the-national-debt-do-you-want-to-repay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/11\/24\/what-part-of-the-national-debt-do-you-want-to-repay\/","title":{"rendered":"What part of the national debt do you want to repay?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The national economic obsession is with repaying the national debt. But, very few people know what it in the national debt (including, I now realise, the Office for National Statistics) and even fewer realise why it's all pretty useful stuff. In fact, I can't work out a reason why we'd want to repay any of it when the cost of having it is falling, steadily. This is what I explore here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What part of the National Debt would you want to repay?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d-UTNHZXgKY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national economic obsession is with repaying the national debt. But, very few people know what it in the national debt (including, I now realise,<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/11\/24\/what-part-of-the-national-debt-do-you-want-to-repay\/\"><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":[35,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54117","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=54117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}