There is no money "laying around" by cutting spending. Spending is always a decision. But it doesn't have any impact on affordability. The US, as with the UK, Australia, Japan and China, creates currency every time it spends and deletes currency every single time it taxes.
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At some point, the issue comes down to do we have the real resources or not?
Do we have the political will to do it?
Do we have the ability to do whatever it is we are attempting to prioritize.
Do we have the political will to do it?
Do we have the ability to do whatever it is we are attempting to prioritize.
Cutting the military budget is great for moral reasons but affordability must absolutely NEVER be the fake excuse for doing it.
That false paradigm keeps us from a Green New Deal. It keeps us from Medicare for All... and it keeps us from ever shedding the burden of student debt.
That false paradigm keeps us from a Green New Deal. It keeps us from Medicare for All... and it keeps us from ever shedding the burden of student debt.
This line of cutting spending here to find money for other things is neoliberal austerity and it is antithetical to your purported intentions.
I beseech you... #LearnMMT
I beseech you... #LearnMMT
The State being The United States not NY, California or Washington.
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