Behind the Money Curtain: A Left Take on Taxes, Spending and Modern Monetary Theory Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 Taxes do not fund government spending.That's a core insight of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) whose radical implications have not been understood very well by the left. Indeed, it's not well understood at all, and most people who have heard or read it somewhere breeze right past it, and fall back to the taxes-for-spending paradigm that is the sticky common wisdom of the left and right.
In Russian and French Prisons Resource Type: Book Published: 1991 Kropotkin's criticism of the penal system, and an inside look into the horrors and realities of what life in prison entails.
We Can Save Social Programs Resource Type: Article Published: 1992 We can save social programs by removing unwarranted tax subsidies for corporations and wealthy investors.
What If ObamaCare was a Fighter Jet? Prospering Through Failure Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Like the comically bad roll-out of the Affordable Care Acts website, the long-delayed and often-rejiggered F-35 program is a costly disaster rife with technological snafus, software problems and repeated contractor incompetence.