Share: Republicans in the House, esp. the Speaker, #MAGAMike, oppose Americans' safety net, financial gains & well-being, & legitimize corruption & #greedflation:
"The House GOP govt funding bill makes it harder to file your taxes, enables auto dealers to cheat consumers, raises credit card late fees, facilitates money laundering & tax evasion..."
-M Stoller
I read an article comparing the treatment of the gas industry with the education industry in the budget, but I can’t find it now, can’t remember where I read it. Anyone help me? #budget#auspol#education#climate
The #Australia government is not a household or a business, they are the monopoly issuer of our #currency.
Any #surplus they achieve is necessarily money they could have spent on things we need, but chose not to. That's bad.
Do we want a government that taxes more money than they spend?
I don't. I want a government that identifies what needs doing, and spends whatever money required to achieve that.
And taxes based on which parties or activities should not have as much money as they extracted from the economy. Not a fiction of taxation "to spend on" something else.
The federal government should not have a "balanced #budget", they don't have any need to "find the money" anywhere, they issue as much #AustralianDollar as they choose to at any time.
That's what a federal spending bill does: The money now exists. It didn't "come from" anywhere. Stop waiting for taxation!