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This Republican, who voted for deficits that lined the pockets of the richest people in this country, wants the Senate to VOTE to affirm that restructuring those deficits to serve the broad majority is too dangerous. perdue.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…
#MMT poses an enormous threat to those who wish to justify cuts to programs like #SocialSecurity or deny resources to a #GreenNewDeal on the basis of a phony debt crisis. They *need* The Deficit Myth. We want a better debate, one centered on our real resource constraints.
Fixed it. 
It’s not about whether we will have deficits. We will have deficits!
It’s about deficits for whom/what. This resolution seems to be aimed at kneecapping the argument that deficits can be used to support this kind of thing.
theintercept.com/2019/04/17/gre…
It’s about deficits for whom/what. This resolution seems to be aimed at kneecapping the argument that deficits can be used to support this kind of thing.
theintercept.com/2019/04/17/gre…
Because, as we all know, deficits are only responsible when they’re used to support this kind of thing.
The deficit myth "provides a cover for people whose real agenda is to cut government spending, to cut Social Security, to cut Medicare, to cut every kind of program that benefits low-income people, that benefits cities, that benefits the public-sector unions....
The deficit is an umbrella argument to draw attention away from what is being done.” ~James Galbraith prospect.org/article/qa-why…
