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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 3654437" data-attributes="member: 56035"><a href="https://twitter.com/psliker" target="_blank"> Paul Sliker //‏ @psliker</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://twitter.com/psliker/status/1023624467136884736" target="_blank">12h12 hours ago</a>What Doug seems to fail to understand is that all government spending is money creation. MMT gives us empirical realities about the way our monetary system *already works* but this guy is more interested in strawmanning a leading progressive economist than doing basic research.<a href="https://twitter.com/DougHenwood/status/1023386888638550016" target="_blank"> </a>Doug Henwood @DougHenwoodi’m confused. You’d rather print money than tax rich people, is that it? [MEDIA=twitter]1023306441413804033[/MEDIA] …3 replies&nbsp; &nbsp; 9 retweets&nbsp; &nbsp; 30 likes</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 3654437, member: 56035"] [URL='https://twitter.com/psliker'] [B]Paul Sliker //[/B]‏ @[B]psliker[/B][/URL] [URL='https://twitter.com/psliker/status/1023624467136884736']12h12 hours ago[/URL] What Doug seems to fail to understand is that all government spending is money creation. MMT gives us empirical realities about the way our monetary system *already works* but this guy is more interested in strawmanning a leading progressive economist than doing basic research. [URL='https://twitter.com/DougHenwood/status/1023386888638550016'] [/URL] [B]Doug Henwood[/B] @[B]DougHenwood[/B] i’m confused. You’d rather print money than tax rich people, is that it? [MEDIA=twitter]1023306441413804033[/MEDIA] … 3 replies 9 retweets 30 likes [/QUOTE]

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