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- America’s Deceptive 2012 Fiscal Cliff
How Today’s Fiscal Austerity is Reminiscent of World War I’s Economic Misunderstandings
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
An exploration of how today’s fiscal austerity is reminiscent of World War I’s economic misconceptions.
- 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.
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- The Deficit Made me do it
Resource Type: Book
- Empire Building, the Debt Ceiling, the Budget Deficit, and the Samson Solution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Raising the debt ceiling allows the State to keep borrowing and pay its billionaire creditors.Financing the budget deficit requires borrowing, which involves the sale hundreds of billions of dollars worth of US government bonds through Wall Street — but at a cost to the taxpayer. The common denominator is that the entire edifice of finance capital and all of its support structures depend on debt financing by the State. By borrowing and then taxing its citizens the Treasury extracts wealth from the vast majority of Americans.
- GovernmentSources.ca
Resource Type: Website
A portal with information about government, Canadian and international, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Medicare Myths and Realities
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Since medicare is an extremely popular social program, the media and right-wing politicians have learned that it is unwise to attack it directly. Instead, they propagate myths designed to undermine public support for, and confidence in, the health care system, with the goal of gradually undermining and dismantling it.
- Odious Debts
Loose Lending, Corruption and the Thirld World's Environmental Legacy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- Preservation or plunder? The battle over the British Museum's Indigenous Australian show
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Indigenous Australians are calling for the objects on show at the British Museum's new exhibition to be returned.
- The Quick and The Dead
Brian Mulroney, Big Business And The Seduction Of Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
McQuaig argues that since 1984, there has been a systematic transfer of power in Canada from the democratically elected government to the private sector.
- Seven Public Sector Myths
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1991
Fact and fiction about the public sector.
- The Solution to the Country's Debt and Deficit Problem
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
For most people, the country's national debt and annual deficit are not major concerns. However, for a substantial portion of the policy types who make, write, and talk about economic and budget policy, debt and deficits are really big deals. And, the fact that our budget deficit and debt are both large by historic standards, and growing rapidly, is an especially big deal.
- A Time to Stand Together...A Time for Social Solidarity
A Declaration on Social and Economic Policy Directions for Canada by Members of Popular Sector Groups
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
- Unnecessary Debts
Resource Type: Book
- 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.
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