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Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Steve Hayward — The Laffer Curve of the Left?
It occurred to me recently that everything has gone wrong since Milton Friedman died in 2006.
“One of the genius effects of Ronald Reagan back in the 1980s was that he turned Democrats into deficit hawks.”
Democrats turned themselves into deficit hawks, and they did it for two reasons…
[1] They were following order from their rich owners, who want to maintain the gap between themselves and the masses.
[2] Democrats falsely claim that U.S. federal dollars are scarce so that Democrats can falsely tell the masses, “Without us to protect you, the Republicans would steal all of what few dollars remain.”
The article then lapses into bullshit about the “failure of socialism” (i.e. the evil of putting people before oligarchs) at which point I bailed.
The more than MMT gets talked about, the more worms slither out of the sewer to attack it, in the hope of getting a pat on the back from the money powers.
“One of the genius effects of Ronald Reagan back in the 1980s was that he turned Democrats into deficit hawks.”
ReplyDeleteDemocrats turned themselves into deficit hawks, and they did it for two reasons…
[1] They were following order from their rich owners, who want to maintain the gap between themselves and the masses.
[2] Democrats falsely claim that U.S. federal dollars are scarce so that Democrats can falsely tell the masses, “Without us to protect you, the Republicans would steal all of what few dollars remain.”
The article then lapses into bullshit about the “failure of socialism” (i.e. the evil of putting people before oligarchs) at which point I bailed.
The more than MMT gets talked about, the more worms slither out of the sewer to attack it, in the hope of getting a pat on the back from the money powers.