You understand The Big Lie. You just don’t know it, yet.

The Big Lie in economics is:

Federal Taxes Fund Federal Spending

Unlike state and local governments, whose taxes do fund spending, the federal government is Monetarily Sovereign. It has total sovereignty over the dollar. It can create as many dollars as it wishes, any time it wishes.

You read and hear the Big Lie almost every day.

Each time someone asks “Who’s going to pay for that?” when discussing a federal program, they express the Big Lie. The answer to their question is: The federal government will pay for it by creating dollars, ad hoc.

Obamacare is based on the Big Lie because it requires people to pay the federal government for services. The federal government neither needs nor uses such payments.

The Big Lie hides the fact that all federal tax dollars are destroyed upon receipt.

The federal government “has” no dollars. Rather it sends instructions to banks (in the form of checks or wires), telling the banks to increase the balances in checking accounts. When the banks do as instructed, dollars are created.

The concept, “federal taxes destroy dollars,” is counterintuitive and difficult to explain, particularly since state and local taxes do not destroy dollars. At first blush, the average person cannot imagine why the federal government taxes, if it destroys tax dollars.

(The reasons are psychological, and allow the government to control the citizenry by rationing services.)

Interestingly, I’ve found that everyone knows federal taxes destroy dollars, without knowing they know it.

Here’s the essence of a conversation I had just yesterday, with a friend:

RM: Federal tax dollars are destroyed as soon as they are received by the government.

Friend: No they aren’t. They are spent by the federal government. Taxes are how the government pays for spending.

RM: Do you think the federal government can run out of dollars?

F: No, the government always can print more dollars.

RM: If that is the case, the federal government doesn’t need to tax. It could stop taxing tomorrow and simply create the dollars it needs.

F: But that would cause inflation.

RM: Why would the end of federal taxation cause inflation?

F: Because if the government simply printed dollars, the dollar supply would go up, which would cheapen the dollar, and that’s inflation.

RM: So what you’re saying is: Federal spending causes inflation by increasing the dollar supply, and federal taxes prevent inflation by reducing the dollar supply.

F: Yes.

RM: Which shows you understand that federal tax dollars are destroyed upon receipt. If they still existed, they wouldn’t offset federal spending, and couldn’t prevent inflation.

And by the way, this isn’t true of state and local taxes, which are deposited in banks.  Dollars exist only when they are circulating in the economy. The federal government has no dollars. It destroys every dollar it receives.

The fact that the federal government not only has no need for taxes, but actually destroys tax dollars upon receipt, is the single most important concept in all of economics.

It is the foundation of Monetary Sovereignty. It is what makes the Ten Steps to Prosperity (see below) possible.

Not understanding why the Big Lie (Federal Taxes Fund Federal Spending) is in fact, a lie, has led to the euro disaster. It’s why many states, counties, and cities teeter on the edge of financial disaster, while the federal government never has any difficulty paying its bills.

It’s why the UK was wise in retaining its pound, and not surrendering to the euro.

It’s why many states, counties, and cities teeter on the edge of financial disaster, while the federal government never has any difficulty paying its bills.

In short, everyone believes federal tax dollars are destroyed upon receipt. They just don’t know they believe it.

To claim that eliminating federal taxes would cause inflation is simply another way to say federal taxation destroys dollars.

It’s the first big step toward understanding economics.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Monetary Sovereignty

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Ten Steps to Prosperity:
1. ELIMINATE FICA (Ten Reasons to Eliminate FICA )
Although the article lists 10 reasons to eliminate FICA, there are two fundamental reasons:
*FICA is the most regressive tax in American history, widening the Gap by punishing the low and middle-income groups, while leaving the rich untouched, and
*The federal government, being Monetarily Sovereign, neither needs nor uses FICA to support Social Security and Medicare.
2. FEDERALLY FUNDED MEDICARE — PARTS A, B & D, PLUS LONG TERM CARE — FOR EVERYONE (H.R. 676, Medicare for All )
This article addresses the questions:
*Does the economy benefit when the rich afford better health care than the rest of Americans?
*Aside from improved health care, what are the other economic effects of “Medicare for everyone?”
*How much would it cost taxpayers?
*Who opposes it?”
3. PROVIDE AN ECONOMIC BONUS TO EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD IN AMERICA, AND/OR EVERY STATE, A PER CAPITA ECONOMIC BONUS (The JG (Jobs Guarantee) vs the GI (Guaranteed Income) vs the EB) Or institute a reverse income tax.
This article is the fifth in a series about direct financial assistance to Americans:

Why Modern Monetary Theory’s Employer of Last Resort is a bad idea. Sunday, Jan 1 2012
MMT’s Job Guarantee (JG) — “Another crazy, rightwing, Austrian nutjob?” Thursday, Jan 12 2012
Why Modern Monetary Theory’s Jobs Guarantee is like the EU’s euro: A beloved solution to the wrong problem. Tuesday, May 29 2012
“You can’t fire me. I’m on JG” Saturday, Jun 2 2012

Economic growth should include the “bottom” 99.9%, not just the .1%, the only question being, how best to accomplish that. Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) favors giving everyone a job. Monetary Sovereignty (MS) favors giving everyone money. The five articles describe the pros and cons of each approach.
4. FREE EDUCATION (INCLUDING POST-GRAD) FOR EVERYONE Five reasons why we should eliminate school loans
Monetarily non-sovereign State and local governments, despite their limited finances, support grades K-12. That level of education may have been sufficient for a largely agrarian economy, but not for our currently more technical economy that demands greater numbers of highly educated workers.
Because state and local funding is so limited, grades K-12 receive short shrift, especially those schools whose populations come from the lowest economic groups. And college is too costly for most families.
An educated populace benefits a nation, and benefiting the nation is the purpose of the federal government, which has the unlimited ability to pay for K-16 and beyond.
5. SALARY FOR ATTENDING SCHOOL
Even were schooling to be completely free, many young people cannot attend, because they and their families cannot afford to support non-workers. In a foundering boat, everyone needs to bail, and no one can take time off for study.
If a young person’s “job” is to learn and be productive, he/she should be paid to do that job, especially since that job is one of America’s most important.
6. ELIMINATE CORPORATE TAXES
Corporations themselves exist only as legalities. They don’t pay taxes or pay for anything else. They are dollar-tranferring machines. They transfer dollars from customers to employees, suppliers, shareholders and the government (the later having no use for those dollars).
Any tax on corporations reduces the amount going to employees, suppliers and shareholders, which diminishes the economy. Ultimately, all corporate taxes come around and reappear as deductions from your personal income.
7. INCREASE THE STANDARD INCOME TAX DEDUCTION, ANNUALLY. (Refer to this.) Federal taxes punish taxpayers and harm the economy. The federal government has no need for those punishing and harmful tax dollars. There are several ways to reduce taxes, and we should evaluate and choose the most progressive approaches.
Cutting FICA and corporate taxes would be an good early step, as both dramatically affect the 99%. Annual increases in the standard income tax deduction, and a reverse income tax also would provide benefits from the bottom up. Both would narrow the Gap.
8. TAX THE VERY RICH (THE “.1%) MORE, WITH HIGHER PROGRESSIVE TAX RATES ON ALL FORMS OF INCOME. (TROPHIC CASCADE)
There was a time when I argued against increasing anyone’s federal taxes. After all, the federal government has no need for tax dollars, and all taxes reduce Gross Domestic Product, thereby negatively affecting the entire economy, including the 99.9%.
But I have come to realize that narrowing the Gap requires trimming the top. It simply would not be possible to provide the 99.9% with enough benefits to narrow the Gap in any meaningful way. Bill Gates reportedly owns $70 billion. To get to that level, he must have been earning $10 billion a year. Pick any acceptable Gap (1000 to 1?), and the lowest paid American would have to receive $10 million a year. Unreasonable.
9. FEDERAL OWNERSHIP OF ALL BANKS (Click The end of private banking and How should America decide “who-gets-money”?)
Banks have created all the dollars that exist. Even dollars created at the direction of the federal government, actually come into being when banks increase the numbers in checking accounts. This gives the banks enormous financial power, and as we all know, power corrupts — especially when multiplied by a profit motive.
Although the federal government also is powerful and corrupted, it does not suffer from a profit motive, the world’s most corrupting influence.
10. INCREASE FEDERAL SPENDING ON THE MYRIAD INITIATIVES THAT BENEFIT AMERICA’S 99.9% (Federal agencies)Browse the agencies. See how many agencies benefit the lower- and middle-income/wealth/ power groups, by adding dollars to the economy and/or by actions more beneficial to the 99.9% than to the .1%.
Save this reference as your primer to current economics. Sadly, much of the material is not being taught in American schools, which is all the more reason for you to use it.

The Ten Steps will grow the economy, and narrow the income/wealth/power Gap between the rich and you.

MONETARY SOVEREIGNTY

Two problems, one solution: Gun violence and the Gap

Often, in an argument, much can be learned by looking closely and honestly at the other side, to see what elements of truth might lie there.

Consider, for instance, Gun Violence

What if the weapons manufacturers and their paid lobbyists, the NRA, are right after all? What if it’s true that “guns don’t kill people; people kill people”?

What if limiting gun purchases and stronger gun-control laws don’t work?  What if allowing everyone own a gun makes you safer?

I personally don’t believe these things, but what if they were true?

Hold that thought, as we move to the next problem:

The Gap between the rich and the rest.

Have you noticed that the wealthier parts of town have fewer gun murders than do the less-affluent neighborhoods?

Why?

Is there a genetic difference between poor babies and rich babies, that makes poor babies more desirous of shooting  people?

Is there a genetic difference between poor babies and rich babies, that makes rich babies grow up to be more honest and compassionate?

Does a genetic difference cause rich babies to grow up more ambitious and harder working? Is it a genetic difference that causes poor fathers to run away from home more often, leaving poor children without role models?

Are there cultural and traditional differences? Is there a common culture among poor blacks, poor whites, and poor Latinos,  a common culture that is different from the common culture of all rich people (some of whom are black, white and Latino)?

What is the one common element among poor blacks, poor whites, and poor Latinos? The answer is clear.

The single common element among all poor people is they all are poor.

Poor people may be black, white or brown, more or less intelligent, lazy or hard working, happy or sad, caring or uncaring, honest or dishonest, good parents or bad, ruthless or compassionate, religious or not — but the one thing they all have in common is a lack of money. 

And therein lies the solution to two problems: Gun killings and the Gap.

Because all poor neighborhoods, of all colors and faiths, are more subject to gangs and gun violence, and the only common element among all poor neighborhoods is poverty, then one partial solution to gun violence is to reduce poverty. 

Rather than try to attack gun violence at the level of gun ownership, or blather on about Constitutional rights, perhaps we simply should attack the most fundamental cause.

If we reduce the Gap between the rich and the rest, we automatically can reduce gang warfare and shootings.

I don’t need to keep a gun for protection. I live in an upscale community where gun violence is quite rare. Some of my neighbors may have or even carry guns; I don’t know which ones may.

But, mathematically, I would increase my odds of being shot if I kept a loaded gun in the house or carried one in the street.

I’m sure there are plenty of drugs in our schools, but drug gang warfare is non-existent and shootings unheard of.

It’s not that my neighbors and I are morally superior, or more intelligent, or harder working.  Far from it.

The difference is we don’t have to commit street crime in order to make ends meet.

I have no trouble paying for food, clothing, and lodging. I don’t need to rob anyone, and my neighbors don’t need to rob me.

The vast majority of the few burglaries in our town are committed by people who come from a neighboring town, where poverty is far more common.

You seldom hear of a rich man committing burglary or robbery. Rich people may commit white-collar crime, but not gun crime.

Yes, there can be exceptions, but historically the most common gun crimes are committed by the poor, so a partial solution to gun crime is to reduce the number of poor people.

The best protection you can give to your family and yourself is not to own a gun, but rather to help lift the poor.

This may be counter-intuitive to those who despise the poor, and who attribute to the poor all sorts of demeaning characteristics.

But this much is true: If you lived in an area where there were no poor, you wouldn’t need to own or carry a gun for protection.

(And no, carrying a gun will not protect you from a government-orchestrated military takeover. So puleeze, no conspiracy theories.)

Here we have a straightforward  partial solution to gun violence and to the Gap, all rolled into one. No need to even argue about the 2nd Amendment.

Simply institute the Ten Steps to Prosperity (below).

It’s a much more moral and surer way to protect your family and yourself.

Rather than writing to your Congressperson, asking for a loosening of gun laws, ask him/her to read the Ten Steps and to implement them.

Protect your self and your family by helping others.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Monetary Sovereignty

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Ten Steps to Prosperity:
1. ELIMINATE FICA (Ten Reasons to Eliminate FICA )
Although the article lists 10 reasons to eliminate FICA, there are two fundamental reasons:
*FICA is the most regressive tax in American history, widening the Gap by punishing the low and middle-income groups, while leaving the rich untouched, and
*The federal government, being Monetarily Sovereign, neither needs nor uses FICA to support Social Security and Medicare.
2. FEDERALLY FUNDED MEDICARE — PARTS A, B & D, PLUS LONG TERM CARE — FOR EVERYONE (H.R. 676, Medicare for All )
This article addresses the questions:
*Does the economy benefit when the rich afford better health care than the rest of Americans?
*Aside from improved health care, what are the other economic effects of “Medicare for everyone?”
*How much would it cost taxpayers?
*Who opposes it?”
3. PROVIDE AN ECONOMIC BONUS TO EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD IN AMERICA, AND/OR EVERY STATE, A PER CAPITA ECONOMIC BONUS (The JG (Jobs Guarantee) vs the GI (Guaranteed Income) vs the EB) Or institute a reverse income tax.
This article is the fifth in a series about direct financial assistance to Americans:

Why Modern Monetary Theory’s Employer of Last Resort is a bad idea. Sunday, Jan 1 2012
MMT’s Job Guarantee (JG) — “Another crazy, rightwing, Austrian nutjob?” Thursday, Jan 12 2012
Why Modern Monetary Theory’s Jobs Guarantee is like the EU’s euro: A beloved solution to the wrong problem. Tuesday, May 29 2012
“You can’t fire me. I’m on JG” Saturday, Jun 2 2012

Economic growth should include the “bottom” 99.9%, not just the .1%, the only question being, how best to accomplish that. Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) favors giving everyone a job. Monetary Sovereignty (MS) favors giving everyone money. The five articles describe the pros and cons of each approach.
4. FREE EDUCATION (INCLUDING POST-GRAD) FOR EVERYONEFive reasons why we should eliminate school loans
Monetarily non-sovereign State and local governments, despite their limited finances, support grades K-12. That level of education may have been sufficient for a largely agrarian economy, but not for our currently more technical economy that demands greater numbers of highly educated workers.
Because state and local funding is so limited, grades K-12 receive short shrift, especially those schools whose populations come from the lowest economic groups. And college is too costly for most families.
An educated populace benefits a nation, and benefiting the nation is the purpose of the federal government, which has the unlimited ability to pay for K-16 and beyond.
5. SALARY FOR ATTENDING SCHOOL
Even were schooling to be completely free, many young people cannot attend, because they and their families cannot afford to support non-workers. In a foundering boat, everyone needs to bail, and no one can take time off for study.
If a young person’s “job” is to learn and be productive, he/she should be paid to do that job, especially since that job is one of America’s most important.
6. ELIMINATE CORPORATE TAXES
Corporations themselves exist only as legalities. They don’t pay taxes or pay for anything else. They are dollar-tranferring machines. They transfer dollars from customers to employees, suppliers, shareholders and the government (the later having no use for those dollars).
Any tax on corporations reduces the amount going to employees, suppliers and shareholders, which diminishes the economy. Ultimately, all corporate taxes come around and reappear as deductions from your personal income.
7. INCREASE THE STANDARD INCOME TAX DEDUCTION, ANNUALLY. (Refer to this.) Federal taxes punish taxpayers and harm the economy. The federal government has no need for those punishing and harmful tax dollars. There are several ways to reduce taxes, and we should evaluate and choose the most progressive approaches.
Cutting FICA and corporate taxes would be an good early step, as both dramatically affect the 99%. Annual increases in the standard income tax deduction, and a reverse income tax also would provide benefits from the bottom up. Both would narrow the Gap.
8. TAX THE VERY RICH (THE “.1%) MORE, WITH HIGHER PROGRESSIVE TAX RATES ON ALL FORMS OF INCOME. (TROPHIC CASCADE)
There was a time when I argued against increasing anyone’s federal taxes. After all, the federal government has no need for tax dollars, and all taxes reduce Gross Domestic Product, thereby negatively affecting the entire economy, including the 99.9%.
But I have come to realize that narrowing the Gap requires trimming the top. It simply would not be possible to provide the 99.9% with enough benefits to narrow the Gap in any meaningful way. Bill Gates reportedly owns $70 billion. To get to that level, he must have been earning $10 billion a year. Pick any acceptable Gap (1000 to 1?), and the lowest paid American would have to receive $10 million a year. Unreasonable.
9. FEDERAL OWNERSHIP OF ALL BANKS (Click The end of private banking and How should America decide “who-gets-money”?)
Banks have created all the dollars that exist. Even dollars created at the direction of the federal government, actually come into being when banks increase the numbers in checking accounts. This gives the banks enormous financial power, and as we all know, power corrupts — especially when multiplied by a profit motive.
Although the federal government also is powerful and corrupted, it does not suffer from a profit motive, the world’s most corrupting influence.
10. INCREASE FEDERAL SPENDING ON THE MYRIAD INITIATIVES THAT BENEFIT AMERICA’S 99.9% (Federal agencies)Browse the agencies. See how many agencies benefit the lower- and middle-income/wealth/ power groups, by adding dollars to the economy and/or by actions more beneficial to the 99.9% than to the .1%.
Save this reference as your primer to current economics. Sadly, much of the material is not being taught in American schools, which is all the more reason for you to use it.

The Ten Steps will grow the economy, and narrow the income/wealth/power Gap between the rich and you.

MONETARY SOVEREIGNTY

How to protect your child in shooting-gallery America

The right-wing Supreme Court has decided that everyone in America — you, your neighbors, strangers in the street, the angry guy in the car tailgating you who just flipped you the bird — everyone is entitled to carry a  gun “for protection.”

So, you may wonder how you will protect your children.

Yes, you pack heat everywhere you go, and some of you give your children guns, because they seem mature for their years.

But for the rest of you who worry that your children might be shot when you’re not around, here are some solutions you might consider.

(The following also is for you folks who wisely will run away when the shooting starts, like those Dallas folks did.)

Send your kid to school with this bullet-proof backpack:

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Or, consider this bullet-proof blanket in stylish orange: Believe me, no one will laugh when your kid is the only one left alive.

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For the youngest members of your family, we offer this stroller in both black and blood red:

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Don’t wait for the country to come to its senses and pass gun control legislation. That could take decades. And you don’t believe in it, anyway. We all need guns to protect ourselves against the government, or something.

Hey, look at that guy walking toward your little daughter’s school, with a rifle slung over his shoulder.

Hmmm . . . that’s an awfully big magazine on his gun. Why does he need such a big magazine on a semi-automatic, high-powered weapon? He must have a good reason. Maybe, he’s hunting a whole herd of deer.

Sure, he’s just exercising his Constitutional rights. (And if there is one thing you know about the Constitution, it’s the second half of the 2nd Amendment.)

But what do you know about that guy? Is he a “good guy” or a “bad guy”? How can you tell?

Gee, wasn’t that Dallas killer a “good guy” before he became a “bad guy”?

Well, you can’t hang around here. You have to go to work now. But you’re not worried. You bought your daughter a bullet-proof backpack.

She’ll be O.K., because you’re a good parent.

shooting-gallery america

You’ve done all you can to protect your children in shooting gallery America.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Monetary Sovereignty

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Ten Steps to Prosperity:
1. ELIMINATE FICA (Ten Reasons to Eliminate FICA )
Although the article lists 10 reasons to eliminate FICA, there are two fundamental reasons:
*FICA is the most regressive tax in American history, widening the Gap by punishing the low and middle-income groups, while leaving the rich untouched, and
*The federal government, being Monetarily Sovereign, neither needs nor uses FICA to support Social Security and Medicare.
2. FEDERALLY FUNDED MEDICARE — PARTS A, B & D, PLUS LONG TERM CARE — FOR EVERYONE (H.R. 676, Medicare for All )
This article addresses the questions:
*Does the economy benefit when the rich afford better health care than the rest of Americans?
*Aside from improved health care, what are the other economic effects of “Medicare for everyone?”
*How much would it cost taxpayers?
*Who opposes it?”
3. PROVIDE AN ECONOMIC BONUS TO EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD IN AMERICA, AND/OR EVERY STATE, A PER CAPITA ECONOMIC BONUS (The JG (Jobs Guarantee) vs the GI (Guaranteed Income) vs the EB) Or institute a reverse income tax.
This article is the fifth in a series about direct financial assistance to Americans:

Why Modern Monetary Theory’s Employer of Last Resort is a bad idea. Sunday, Jan 1 2012
MMT’s Job Guarantee (JG) — “Another crazy, rightwing, Austrian nutjob?” Thursday, Jan 12 2012
Why Modern Monetary Theory’s Jobs Guarantee is like the EU’s euro: A beloved solution to the wrong problem. Tuesday, May 29 2012
“You can’t fire me. I’m on JG” Saturday, Jun 2 2012

Economic growth should include the “bottom” 99.9%, not just the .1%, the only question being, how best to accomplish that. Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) favors giving everyone a job. Monetary Sovereignty (MS) favors giving everyone money. The five articles describe the pros and cons of each approach.
4. FREE EDUCATION (INCLUDING POST-GRAD) FOR EVERYONEFive reasons why we should eliminate school loans
Monetarily non-sovereign State and local governments, despite their limited finances, support grades K-12. That level of education may have been sufficient for a largely agrarian economy, but not for our currently more technical economy that demands greater numbers of highly educated workers.
Because state and local funding is so limited, grades K-12 receive short shrift, especially those schools whose populations come from the lowest economic groups. And college is too costly for most families.
An educated populace benefits a nation, and benefiting the nation is the purpose of the federal government, which has the unlimited ability to pay for K-16 and beyond.
5. SALARY FOR ATTENDING SCHOOL
Even were schooling to be completely free, many young people cannot attend, because they and their families cannot afford to support non-workers. In a foundering boat, everyone needs to bail, and no one can take time off for study.
If a young person’s “job” is to learn and be productive, he/she should be paid to do that job, especially since that job is one of America’s most important.
6. ELIMINATE CORPORATE TAXES
Corporations themselves exist only as legalities. They don’t pay taxes or pay for anything else. They are dollar-tranferring machines. They transfer dollars from customers to employees, suppliers, shareholders and the government (the later having no use for those dollars).
Any tax on corporations reduces the amount going to employees, suppliers and shareholders, which diminishes the economy. Ultimately, all corporate taxes come around and reappear as deductions from your personal income.
7. INCREASE THE STANDARD INCOME TAX DEDUCTION, ANNUALLY. (Refer to this.) Federal taxes punish taxpayers and harm the economy. The federal government has no need for those punishing and harmful tax dollars. There are several ways to reduce taxes, and we should evaluate and choose the most progressive approaches.
Cutting FICA and corporate taxes would be an good early step, as both dramatically affect the 99%. Annual increases in the standard income tax deduction, and a reverse income tax also would provide benefits from the bottom up. Both would narrow the Gap.
8. TAX THE VERY RICH (THE “.1%) MORE, WITH HIGHER PROGRESSIVE TAX RATES ON ALL FORMS OF INCOME. (TROPHIC CASCADE)
There was a time when I argued against increasing anyone’s federal taxes. After all, the federal government has no need for tax dollars, and all taxes reduce Gross Domestic Product, thereby negatively affecting the entire economy, including the 99.9%.
But I have come to realize that narrowing the Gap requires trimming the top. It simply would not be possible to provide the 99.9% with enough benefits to narrow the Gap in any meaningful way. Bill Gates reportedly owns $70 billion. To get to that level, he must have been earning $10 billion a year. Pick any acceptable Gap (1000 to 1?), and the lowest paid American would have to receive $10 million a year. Unreasonable.
9. FEDERAL OWNERSHIP OF ALL BANKS (Click The end of private banking and How should America decide “who-gets-money”?)
Banks have created all the dollars that exist. Even dollars created at the direction of the federal government, actually come into being when banks increase the numbers in checking accounts. This gives the banks enormous financial power, and as we all know, power corrupts — especially when multiplied by a profit motive.
Although the federal government also is powerful and corrupted, it does not suffer from a profit motive, the world’s most corrupting influence.
10. INCREASE FEDERAL SPENDING ON THE MYRIAD INITIATIVES THAT BENEFIT AMERICA’S 99.9% (Federal agencies)Browse the agencies. See how many agencies benefit the lower- and middle-income/wealth/ power groups, by adding dollars to the economy and/or by actions more beneficial to the 99.9% than to the .1%.
Save this reference as your primer to current economics. Sadly, much of the material is not being taught in American schools, which is all the more reason for you to use it.

The Ten Steps will grow the economy, and narrow the income/wealth/power Gap between the rich and you.

MONETARY SOVEREIGNTY

 

Boo hoo. Crocodile tears for Dallas police. A message to the people of Texas

A message to the people of Texas:

Five of your Dallas police officers were shot down. Boo hoo. Crocodile tears.

Who the hell cares? Certainly, not you.

The City of Dallas Is Coming Together to Mourn Last Night’s Tragedy

People began bringing flowers to the Dallas police department the same night of the attack, and on Friday some came out in support for the slain officers, placing bouquets on top of two squad cars that had been set up as a memorial.

Wah, wah. Are you among the grieving phonies who voted to allow every fool in Texas to carry a gun, and now you display your pretend sadness that one of those guns actually was used?

Are you among the shocked! — shocked! — people who parrot the gun lobby’s mouthpiece, the National Rifle Association, when it pronounces the idiocy that, “The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.”

But wait. Wasn’t Micah Johnson, the Dallas shooter, a “good guy”?

He was a soldier who served his country in Afghanistan and worked with special needs children. He could have been your neighbor.

Johnson grew up in Mesquite, a middle-class suburb of Dallas, living with his mother Delphene in a four-bedroom, $220,000 detached house next to a large field.

It was an All-American neighborhood with pick-up trucks and basketball hoops in the drives. The white family next door would sell cookies for the Girl Scouts and Johnson would pop round to buy them.

Johnson’s stepmother appeared proud of his decision to join the Army, posting pictures of him in uniform on her Facebook page.

She and Johnson’s father were part of the local neighborhood watch group and well liked by neighbors.

As a child at John Horn High School in Mesquite, the gunman had been an enthusiastic member of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps and loved basketball.

Friends described him as “fun-loving and goofy” and “a sweet-hearted joker”.

Johnson was just a regular guy, a “good guy.” He legally could have bought any gun he wanted in Texas.

And that’s the point, isn’t it.

When it comes to guns, every “good guy” suddenly can become a “bad guy.”

Like when he gets drunk.
Or you cut him off on the road.
Or if you give him a bad grade in school.
Or you ticket him for speeding.
Or you talk to his girlfriend.
Or you call “Ball!” when he thinks it’s a strike.
Like when he doesn’t like his wife’s smart mouth.
Like when he hates her nagging about drinking with the guys.

And now, you put flowers on police cars to show how oh-so-sad you are about your police officers, when you were the one who killed them.

Yes, you killed those police just a surely as if you had shot them yourself.

You put the gun into the killer’s hands. In fact, you’ve put a lot of guns into a lot of killers’ hands.

And still you whine, “Don’t take my gun. Not my gun. I want my gun. I need my gun. I’m John Wayne. “Wah, wah, wah.”

And more phony “wah, wah, wah” for the dead policemen, whom you killed with your vote against gun control.

Go ahead, pile on the flowers. It isn’t the first time. It won’t be the last time. Nothing will change because you won’t change.

You want every damn fool in Texas to carry a gun, and you believe all those damn fools are “good guys” and will remain “good guys” throughout their lives, and never will get angry.

Oh, you need your gun for protection? Will you shoot first and go to jail, or will you shoot second, and die? What about your wife?

Will your children carry guns to protect themselves at school or on the way?

Really? Are you really that stupid? No.

So is it that you just don’t give a damn as long as you can have your gun?

Is it that you don’t give a damn that you are putting yourself and your loved ones in danger by giving guns to all your neighbors and all the strangers around you.

You don’t really trust that all the people in all the stores where your spouse shops are forever “good guys,” do you?

You don’t really trust that all the people your kids pass, on the way to school, are “good guys,” do you?

You don’t really trust that the driver of the car behind you — the guy who just flipped you the bird — is a good guy, do you?

No, you really aren’t that stupid. It’s just that you don’t give a damn, so long as you can pack your heat.

So cry your crocodile tears. Demonstrate your phony grief. Vote to allow everyone to carry a death machine, then mourn when they use it.

And make sure you have a good supply of flowers and phony tears for the innocent people you will kill.

You’ll need them.

Or, maybe the “good guy” who kills your family can use them.

Phony.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell