In the mean time we will get the Vat Tax, while there is still any value in the dollars we might have saved. It will be “needed” to shore this up, before it collapses utterly.
In all seriousness, my goal is to “need very little”. We’re getting the house paid off, getting the “tools” I need for the new 30x50 shop/garage we just built, raising the chickens we just bought last week, and perhaps this is a time to think about investments. Heck, even precious metals again. If the dollar is losing its value, everything will go up just to compensate - except wages won’t go up as much. So it might be wise to invest - if only to break even in actual wealth.
Vat has been deemed unconstitutional by SCOTUS.