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SecondThought: Why The Government Has Infinite Money (www.youtube.com)

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[–] QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I tried to explain this in Gov class last year and the teacher was just like “well, that’s too complicated for everyone to understand, let’s just pretend taxes pay for stuff.”

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You know who drives me up a wall in that regard? Richard Wolff of Democracy at Work. I suspect he actually knows what’s up, but refuses to stop talking about [federal] taxes that way. Maybe he finds it to be rhetorically useful, but I think he’s ~~his~~ underestimating his audience and doing them a deep disservice.