To tax or not to tax... that is not the question.

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The issue is not whether the rich should be taxed more... of course they should... for a host of reasons from income and wealth inequality to access to scarce real resources that should serve the public and to mitigate their influence within the public sphere.

But the real question is why do folks attach tax wars to programs that save lives? Like #M4All or #CancelStudentDebt. It is allowing people to die fighting a tax war to pay for life saving progs when taxes dont fund those progs at all. I call those who do that murderers by proxy.

They allowed folks to die for an unnecessary tax battle that can be fought as a course of public policy looking at an inflation constraint, not a budget constraint.

The act and purpose of taxation is a separate function from the purpose and the act of spending.

Hijacking bills with "pay fors" is murderous and those who push it are streaked in the blood of those who died in the name of austerity you don't have to like it... but that doesn't change the reality that it is so.
#SorryNotSorry #AusterityIsMurder #StopNeoliberalism #LearnMMT

And if you want another case... Look at COVID Relief.