{"id":86011,"date":"2025-09-18T11:07:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T10:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=86011"},"modified":"2025-09-18T11:07:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T10:07:23","slug":"19-7-million-a-job-the-most-expensively-bought-jobs-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/09\/18\/19-7-million-a-job-the-most-expensively-bought-jobs-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a319.7 million a job – the most expensively bought jobs in history"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Starmer this morning we are to get inward investment from the USA of \u00a3150 billion.<\/p>\n

We are, he says, to get 7,600 jobs as a result.<\/p>\n

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That is one job for every \u00a319.7 million invested.<\/p>\n

These must be the most expensively bought jobs in history.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s put this in context. At the \u00a337,000 median wage the return to the UK will be \u00a3281 million a year<\/p>\n

Now suppose a rate of return of at least 8% on this investment, or \u00a312,000 million (\u00a312 billion)per annum.<\/p>\n

Knock off the wages, and quintuple them for overheads and multipliers , and where is the remaining \u00a310.5 billion or so going? Straight back to the US, I suspect.<\/p>\n

Starmer has been well and truly shafted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to Starmer this morning we are to get inward investment from the USA of \u00a3150 billion. We are, he says, to get 7,600 jobs
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