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“Your taxes don’t actually pay for anything, at least not at the federal level. The government doesn’t need our money. We need their money. We’ve got the whole thing backward!”
― The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy
― The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy
“Fascist politics can dehumanize minority groups even when an explicitly fascist state does not arise.”
― How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
― How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
“MMT rejects the ahistorical barter narrative, drawing instead on an extensive body of scholarship known as chartalism, which shows that taxes were the vehicle that allowed ancient rulers and early nation-states to introduce their own currencies, which only later circulated as a medium of exchange among private individuals.”
― The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy
― The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy
“prioritizes human outcomes while at the same time recognizing and respecting our economy’s real resource constraints.”
― The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy
― The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy
“The dangers of fascist politics come from the particular way in which it dehumanizes segments of the population. By excluding these groups, it limits the capacity for empathy among other citizens, leading to the justification of inhumane treatment, from repression of freedom, mass imprisonment, and expulsion to, in extreme cases, mass extermination.”
― How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
― How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
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