I've seen a few comments over the years to the effect that New Labour's extra spending on the NHS 'all went on wages and salaries' as if that was a bad thing. Any increased spending going to better pay for nurses and junior doctors, and more of them, will encourage UK people to stay in those jobs.Willow904 wrote: The point about governments being able to spend as much as resources allow is roughly correct, but is made within the context of taxation already in place to retrieve the money spent. Money spent on public sector workers, for instance, is retrieved through income tax and NI. They then spend money on goods and thus VAT and so on.
Our economy is so depressed at present that IMO there would be absolutely no need to raise taxes straight away, a public spending boost would be a boon.
Not likely to happen under this govt.