'Our economists, our politicians, our commentators will say that without growth, we cannot have what we want with regard to public services. But that's not true. We could simply cut our consumption of unnecessary items, and we could do that by cutting the consumption of the very wealthy.
They don't need to fly as much as they do.
They don't need as many yachts as they consume.'
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/06/12/is-all-economic-growth-good/
Denis Buckley
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