What will Rishi Sunak’s economic rescue package look like? A few principles should inform how the government – any government – responds to what is a devastating act of God that affects all of us.
They are:
1) The vulnerable, those who can’t look after themselves, need more help than most.2) If certain behaviours help to keep all of us safe, they should be incentivised.3) If vital infrastructure and services are at risk of collapse, and the market cannot bear the cost of restoring them, those costs should be socialised, or shared between all of us, with the wealthy shouldering the […]
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