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Bill answers the main questions about MMT and a progressive agenda to address wealth inequality. There is no need for a currency issuer to tax to obtain the funds it issues itself. The reasons that a currency issuer should tax excessive wealth is political, in that wealth conveys political power. Neoliberalism differs from classical liberalism (laissez-faire) by harnessing government to promoting the interests of capital rather than reducing government involvement in the economy as a matter of principle.Bill Mitchell – billy blogThe ‘tax the rich’ call bestows unwarranted importance on themBill Mitchell | Professor in Economics and Director of the Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE), at University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: asymmetry, economics and politics, economics and power, inequality, MMT, progressivism, tax policy
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Bill answers the main questions about MMT and a progressive agenda to address wealth inequality. There is no need for a currency issuer to tax to obtain the funds it issues itself. The reasons that a currency issuer should tax excessive wealth is political, in that wealth conveys political power. Neoliberalism differs from classical liberalism (laissez-faire) by harnessing government to promoting the interests of capital rather than reducing government involvement in the economy as a matter of principle.Bill Mitchell – billy blogThe ‘tax the rich’ call bestows unwarranted importance on themBill Mitchell | Professor in Economics and Director of the Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE), at University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: asymmetry, economics and politics, economics and power, inequality, MMT, progressivism, tax policy
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There is no need for a currency issuer to tax to obtain the funds it issues itself.
The reasons that a currency issuer should tax excessive wealth is political, in that wealth conveys political power.
Neoliberalism differs from classical liberalism (laissez-faire) by harnessing government to promoting the interests of capital rather than reducing government involvement in the economy as a matter of principle.
Bill Mitchell – billy blog
The ‘tax the rich’ call bestows unwarranted importance on them
Bill Mitchell | Professor in Economics and Director of the Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE), at University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia