–Australia, you cannot beat America for the title

Twitter: @rodgermitchell; Search #monetarysovereignty
Facebook: Rodger Malcolm Mitchell

Mitchell’s laws:
●The more federal budgets are cut and taxes increased, the weaker an economy becomes.
●Austerity is the government’s method for widening the gap between rich and poor, which ultimately leads to civil disorder.
●Until the 99% understand the need for federal deficits, the upper 1% will rule.
●To survive long term, a monetarily non-sovereign government must have a positive balance of payments.
●Those, who do not understand the differences between Monetary Sovereignty and monetary non-sovereignty, do not understand economics.
●The penalty for ignorance is slavery.
●Everything in economics devolves to motive.
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Most Americans believe our Monetarily Sovereign government – the world’s only government with the unlimited ability to create U.S. dollars – by some magic can run short of dollars, and therefore should take dollars from the private sector.

We also hold the irrational belief that taking dollars from the private sector strengthens the economy.

We had thought those strange beliefs would assure us of the proud title, “Most Ignorant About Economics.” But, no. As we struggle to pull ourselves from the tar pit of recession and austerity, the Australians try to wrest this bit of exclusivity from us.

Financial Review
Labor reels from $20bn budget hole
Phillip Coorey, Chief political correspondent

The federal government faces a forecast revenue shortfall of more than $20 billion over the next four years, prompting a robust internal debate about whether the budget razor gang should make cuts to offset all the losses or delay the surplus yet again.

Measures under consideration to help plug the revenue hole include increases in tobacco excise, abolishing loss carry-back tax provisions for business, and tightening family tax benefits and so-called middle-class welfare.

So there they go. Australian politicians (undoubtedly bribed by the rich, like American politicians) now wish to make their businesses less able to hire workers and also to take money from poor families.

Will these people stop at nothing in their relentless effort to wrest the “Most Ignorant” title from us and to widen the gap between the rich and the rest?

The Age
Income spread evens out a bit
Tim Colebatch, August 1, 2013

The Bureau of Statistics (says) the Gini coefficient of income inequality has declined by 5 per cent (i.e. less inequality) since the GFC. But between 1997 and 2008, inequality increased by 15 per cent. Two-thirds of that is still there.

The bureau highlights the huge impact of government in reducing inequality by pensions, benefits and free services.

Australia’s politicians, like America’s, are terrified that central government spending on benefits to the middle- and lower-income people will reduce income inequality – the very last thing the rich want.

So, the Australian pols do everything to convince the populace their Monetarily Sovereign government is running short of dollars and needs to take money from the private sector.

And like their American counterparts, the Australian people buy into the myth.

Here’s a bit more from “Labor reels from $20bn budget hole”:

Shadow treasurer Joe Hockey Hockey said Prime -Minister Kevin Rudd was softening the population for a ballooning in debt to be associated with the renewed revenue downgrades.

“The government can’t stop spending, spending like there’s no tomorrow. He is playing down the debt challenge because he wants to increase it. He wants to increase the debt.”

Translation: Mr. Rudd is accused of wanting to increase the money supply in Australia’s private sector (That is what “increase the debt” means.) People would actually have more Australian dollars in their pockets. Oh, horrors!

Financial Review
Bank deposits ‘taxed’ for bailout fund
Phillip Coorey and Matthew Dunckley

The Australian Financial Review has learned that the government’s economic statement will contain a deposit insurance levy, which will raise funds to underwrite any Australian bank should it need assistance in the future.

The proposed levy would be between 0.05 per cent and 0.1 per cent. Presently, the government guarantees deposits up to $250,000 without charging the banks.

The revenue raised by the levy will also be added to the budget bottom line, helping the government offset a forecast plunge in revenues since the May budget and meet its target of returning to surplus in 2016-17.

Translation: The levy will help the government meet its target of returning the private sector to deficit in 2016-17 (A government surplus is a private sector deficit).

Treasurer Chris Brown said “we have no plans to tax banks.’’

Translation: We won’t call it a “tax.” We’ll call it a “service fee” Or perhaps a “sock-it-to-the-public stipend.” By not calling it a “tax,” we won’t hurt the economy.

One big bank has warned the levy would be passed on in the form of reduced interest payments on deposits.

Are they saying if we, the government, take dollars from the banks, the banks will spend fewer dollars? We didn’t know that!

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said, “This is a government that cannot control its spending, (so) whenever it gets into trouble, it hits you the Australian people with more taxes.

Translation: “The government should not tax you, because taxes take dollars from the private sector, especially from the rich.

“However, the government should reduce its spending, which puts fewer dollars into the private sector, especially the poor. I know. It makes no sense, but it’s what the rich have paid me to say.”

Bottom line, Australia, you may try to take the title, “Most Ignorant About Economics,” but we are Americans. Nobody beats us. When it comes to economics, we can out-ignorant anyone (except maybe the euro nations).

And, we have a unique weapon that assures us of victory.

We have the Tea Party.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Monetary Sovereignty

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Nine Steps to Prosperity:
1. Eliminate FICA (Click here)
2. Medicare — parts A, B & D — for everyone (Click here)
3. Send every American citizen an annual check for $5,000 or give every state $5,000 per capita (Click here)
4. Long-term nursing care for everyone
5. Free education (including post-grad) for everyone. Click here
6. Salary for attending school (Click here)
7. Eliminate corporate taxes (Click here)
8. Increase the standard income tax deduction annually
9. Increase federal spending on the myriad initiatives that benefit America’s 99% (Click here)

10 Steps to Economic Misery: (Click here:)
1. Maintain or increase the FICA tax..
2. Spread the myth Social Security, Medicare and the U.S. government are insolvent.
3. Cut federal employment in the military, post office, other federal agencies.
4. Broaden the income tax base so more lower income people will pay.
5. Cut financial assistance to the states.
6. Spread the myth federal taxes pay for federal spending.
7. Allow banks to trade for their own accounts; save them when their investments go sour.
8. Never prosecute any banker for criminal activity.
9. Nominate arch conservatives to the Supreme Court.
10. Reduce the federal deficit and debt

No nation can tax itself into prosperity, nor grow without money growth. Monetary Sovereignty: Cutting federal deficits to grow the economy is like applying leeches to cure anemia.
Two key equations in economics:
1. Federal Deficits – Net Imports = Net Private Savings
2. Gross Domestic Product = Federal Spending + Private Investment and Consumption – Net Imports

#MONETARY SOVEREIGNTY

–Beware of Obama bearing “Grand Bargains.” The big lie that destroys America.

Twitter: @rodgermitchell; Search #monetarysovereignty
Facebook: Rodger Malcolm Mitchell

Mitchell’s laws:
●The more federal budgets are cut and taxes increased, the weaker an economy becomes.
●Austerity is the government’s method for widening the gap between rich and poor, which ultimately leads to civil disorder.
●Until the 99% understand the need for federal deficits, the upper 1% will rule.
●To survive long term, a monetarily non-sovereign government must have a positive balance of payments.
●Those, who do not understand the differences between Monetary Sovereignty and monetary non-sovereignty, do not understand economics.
●The penalty for ignorance is slavery.
●Everything in economics devolves to motive.
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Those of you who HAVE read “What President Obama’s ‘grand bargain’ means to your wallet Friday, Nov 2 2012, know that it is a “bargain” only to the rich and a punishment for the middle- and lower-income groups.

The Grand Bargain is a lie, akin to “I’ll be working late at the office, dear,” for Obama is the nation’s political philanderer.

Because he is a Democrat, Obama is “married” to the middle- and lower-income groups, but he cheats on his “wife” every day. His true love is the rich.

His spouse, the middle class, is abused at home with lies, and with threats of Social Security cuts, and with actual cuts to federal spending that would feed, clothe and house her, and further cuts to federal employment — all engineered by her faithless husband, the President.

Meanwhile, Obama will do anything for his rich mistress, who seduces him with campaign contributions and promises of lucrative jobs and a big Obama Library later, and who asks only that he widen the gap between a beautiful rich mistress and the plain, overworked rest of us.

(The Obama model is Bill Clinton who, courtesy of the rich, has become fabulously wealthy, as a “thank you” for cutting the federal deficit. That single act enriched the rich, impoverished the not-rich, widened the gap and led to the recession inherited by President Bush — and Clinton’s mistress has rewarded him ever since.)

Yesterday, as Obama’s latest gift to his mistress, he offered her yet another “grand bargain.”

Obama proposes ‘grand bargain’ on corporate tax rate, infrastructure
By Steve Holland | Reuters

In exchange for his support for a corporate tax reduction, Obama wants the money generated by a tax overhaul to be used to fund such projects as repairing roads and bridges, improving education at community colleges and promoting manufacturing, senior administration officials said.

Think about it. A tax “overhaul” cannot fund anything. The taxes of a Monetarily Sovereign government do not pay for that government’s spending.

If federal taxes were reduced to $0 or increased to $100 trillion, neither event would affect our Monetarily Sovereign government’s ability to spend. Not even by a penny.

So that is one part of the lie.

Then, there is the “tax overhaul” itself. What does that euphemism mean? No one knows for sure, but we have a pretty good idea it means another euphemism: “Broadening the tax base.”

And what does that mean? Generally, it means tax the poor more and tax the rich less. It means pawn your wife’s engagement ring to buy your mistress a fur coat — then tell your wife this is a good thing, because you’ve cut your family insurance costs.

Of course, the broadening might include elimination of so-called “loopholes,” also a mystery term. Here is how “loophole” is defined:

1. All money earned by the private sector — all your money and all business money — is owned by the federal government. All of it.
2. Any of your money you are allowed to keep is a “loophole.”

Simple?

Because Obama harps on his proposals being “revenue neutral,” any tax deductions will be matched by tax increases. Money left in the private sector’s left pocket, will be taken from the private sector’s right pocket — and by some magic of mathematics, Obama considers that stimulative.

The most common measure of the economy is GDP, for which the formula is:

GDP = Federal Spending + Non-federal Spending – Net Imports.

So, for instance, if you were to add $100 to Federal Spending and subtract $100 from Non-Federal Spending, would you add to GDP?

The correct answer, of course, is “No,” but counter to all logic and mathematics, President Obama has been telling you, “Yes.”

Bottom line: To cheat on his spouse, Obama relies on one fundamental lie. It is the basis of all of Obama’s “grand bargains.” The BIG LIE is: Federal taxes pay for federal spending.

Eliminate that single lie — six little words — and you eliminate all the misstatements about our economy, the need for austerity, federal deficits, federal debt, Social Security being unsustainable, Medicare being unsustainable, unemployment, the need for spending cuts and broadening the tax base, etc. etc.

Forget the latest grand bargain or grander bargain or grandest bargain. All these “bargains” are based on the BIG LIE, the purpose of which is to widen the income gap. That’s is all Obama’s mistress asks of him.

Instead remember these two simple truths:

Your spouse may not really be working late at the office, and

FEDERAL TAXES ABSOLUTELY DO NOT PAY FOR FEDERAL SPENDING. Remember these words, and the politicians never will be able to fool you, again.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Monetary Sovereignty

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Nine Steps to Prosperity:
1. Eliminate FICA (Click here)
2. Medicare — parts A, B & D — for everyone
3. Send every American citizen an annual check for $5,000 or give every state $5,000 per capita (Click here)
4. Long-term nursing care for everyone
5. Free education (including post-grad) for everyone. Click here
6. Salary for attending school (Click here)
7. Eliminate corporate taxes
8. Increase the standard income tax deduction annually
9. Increase federal spending on the myriad initiatives that benefit America’s 99%

10 Steps to Economic Misery: (Click here:)
1. Maintain or increase the FICA tax..
2. Spread the myth Social Security, Medicare and the U.S. government are insolvent.
3. Cut federal employment in the military, post office, other federal agencies.
4. Broaden the income tax base so more lower income people will pay.
5. Cut financial assistance to the states.
6. Spread the myth federal taxes pay for federal spending.
7. Allow banks to trade for their own accounts; save them when their investments go sour.
8. Never prosecute any banker for criminal activity.
9. Nominate arch conservatives to the Supreme Court.
10. Reduce the federal deficit and debt

No nation can tax itself into prosperity, nor grow without money growth. Monetary Sovereignty: Cutting federal deficits to grow the economy is like applying leeches to cure anemia.
Two key equations in economics:
1. Federal Deficits – Net Imports = Net Private Savings
2. Gross Domestic Product = Federal Spending + Private Investment and Consumption – Net Imports

#MONETARY SOVEREIGNTY

Why the economy grows when the stimulus shrinks

Twitter: @rodgermitchell; Search #monetarysovereignty
Facebook: Rodger Malcolm Mitchell

Mitchell’s laws:
●The more federal budgets are cut and taxes increased, the weaker an economy becomes.
●Austerity is the government’s method for widening the gap between rich and poor, which ultimately leads to civil disorder.
●Until the 99% understand the need for federal deficits, the upper 1% will rule.
●To survive long term, a monetarily non-sovereign government must have a positive balance of payments.
●Those, who do not understand the differences between Monetary Sovereignty and monetary non-sovereignty, do not understand economics.
●The penalty for ignorance is slavery.
●Everything in economics devolves to motive.
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At one point, I was a partner in an advertising agency. Our biggest client was the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, the producers of Wrigley’s Spearmint, Doublemint and Juicy Fruit gums (among myriad other brands).

The story is told about Philip K. Wrigley, son of the company’s founder who, along with a friend, was a passenger on a plane. The plane was in takeoff mode, and had just lifted off the ground.

The friend turned to Mr. Wrigley and said, “Phil, I’ve been thinking about your business. Almost everyone in America, if not the world, knows about Wrigley’s gum. Why do you keep spending so many millions on advertising? Why not just keep that money as profits.”

Mr. Wrigley’s response was, “This plane is going about 300 miles per hour and accelerating. If they shut off the engines, our momentum would keep us climbing for a while. But if the engines didn’t come back on soon, eventually we would crash.”

Economy hums along, proves taxing and spending prognosticators wrong
By Patrice Hill-The Washington Times Sunday, July 28, 2013

The U.S. economy has fared better than expected this year after widespread fears that $85 billion of automatic spending cuts and sharp increases in taxes imposed at the beginning of the year would snuff out growth.

Despite the unprecedented withdrawal of massive federal stimulus from the economy, the abrupt withdrawal of $600 billion of tax cuts Jan. 1, and state and local spending cuts of historic proportions in the past five years, the U.S. economic growth has trudged along at a 2 percent average rate since the recovery began in mid-2009.

I fully expect the debt hawks to claim current growth proves the need of more austerity. Hey, we’re cutting budgets and the economy is growing. What could be clearer?

Well, perhaps the following could be clearer:

It’s a graph of federal debt held by the public, one measure of net federal spending — the same graph you saw at: This graph predicts the future. What does it tell you? Wednesday, Jun 12 2013

The graph teaches that:

1. Every recession since 1959 has begun when net federal spending growth has fallen, relative to the previous year (aka austerity).

2. Every recession has ended during a time when net federal spending growth has risen.

3. The momentum generated by increases in net spending growth always carries the economy for several years after the economic engine slows down. About 10 years of reduced spending growth caused the recession of 2001. Only four years of reduces spending growth preceded the recession of 2008.

Why the difference? Other factors, in addition to net federal spending growth, lead to recessions. Wars, inflations, natural disasters, energy costs, interest rates, technological discoveries and implementation and unemployment, just to name a few.

Yet, reduced net federal spending growth precedes every recession. It is the one factor common to all 8 recessions.

The U.S. economy’s surprisingly good performance “breathes new life into the debate” over whether spending cuts and tax increases inevitably pose threats to growth that political leaders and economists have assumed, said Christopher Papagianis, who was a domestic policy adviser to President George W. Bush.

Look at the sharp increase in net federal spending growth that cured the most recent recession, and the sharp decrease since.

Our leaders consider a 2% – 3% growth from the abyss “good performance” — something to be thrilled about. Well, perhaps, but really, is the trend all that impressive?

monetary sovereignty

Look how current GDP growth compares with previous post-recession growth rates. Not much to brag about.

Despite our leaders’ smug self-assurance that the economy can grow while net federal spending is cut, they are leading us into yet another recession. Exactly, when will it come? No one can say, because no one can predict and weigh the other factors.

But come it will, and the cause will not be a “natural” cycle. There is nothing natural about a recession. The cause will be reduced federal stimulus.

(Remember how the debt hawks made “stimulus” a bad word, and the public bought into it — as though growing the economy was something to be avoided.)

Now, slowly and surely, as our economic world once again unnecessarily collapses, our bought-and-paid-for politicians continue to fight against “big government,” and for tax “simplification” with a “broader tax base,” and against federal stimulus, and for Social Security “reform” — and the gap between the rich and the rest continues to grow.

But facts? Who needs ’em? Right?

The Congressional Budget Office continues to forecast that the automatic spending cuts will reduce growth by about a half-percentage point and cost the economy about 700,000 jobs.

To quote the brilliant Texas Governor Perry: “OOPS!”

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Monetary Sovereignty

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Nine Steps to Prosperity:
1. Eliminate FICA (Click here)
2. Medicare — parts A, B & D — for everyone
3. Send every American citizen an annual check for $5,000 or give every state $5,000 per capita (Click here)
4. Long-term nursing care for everyone
5. Free education (including post-grad) for everyone. Click here
6. Salary for attending school (Click here)
7. Eliminate corporate taxes
8. Increase the standard income tax deduction annually
9. Increase federal spending on the myriad initiatives that benefit America’s 99%

10 Steps to Economic Misery: (Click here:)
1. Maintain or increase the FICA tax..
2. Spread the myth Social Security, Medicare and the U.S. government are insolvent.
3. Cut federal employment in the military, post office, other federal agencies.
4. Broaden the income tax base so more lower income people will pay.
5. Cut financial assistance to the states.
6. Spread the myth federal taxes pay for federal spending.
7. Allow banks to trade for their own accounts; save them when their investments go sour.
8. Never prosecute any banker for criminal activity.
9. Nominate arch conservatives to the Supreme Court.
10. Reduce the federal deficit and debt

No nation can tax itself into prosperity, nor grow without money growth. Monetary Sovereignty: Cutting federal deficits to grow the economy is like applying leeches to cure anemia.
Two key equations in economics:
1. Federal Deficits – Net Imports = Net Private Savings
2. Gross Domestic Product = Federal Spending + Private Investment and Consumption – Net Imports

#MONETARY SOVEREIGNTY

–Will this save Obamacare? Will it panic Obama?

Twitter: @rodgermitchell; Search #monetarysovereignty
Facebook: Rodger Malcolm Mitchell

Mitchell’s laws:
●The more federal budgets are cut and taxes increased, the weaker an economy becomes.
●Austerity is the government’s method for widening the gap between rich and poor, which ultimately leads to civil disorder.
●Until the 99% understand the need for federal deficits, the upper 1% will rule.
●To survive long term, a monetarily non-sovereign government must have a positive balance of payments.
●Those, who do not understand the differences between Monetary Sovereignty and monetary non-sovereignty, do not understand economics.
●The penalty for ignorance is slavery.
●Everything in economics devolves to motive.
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The single biggest financial problem facing America’s cities and states is underfunded pension plans.

Almost every U.S. non-federal government has them, and being monetarily non-sovereign, local governments have two very poor payment options: Soak the taxpayers, or first borrow and then soak the taxpayers to pay the loans.

Part of the underfunding comes from retiree health costs, and it is here that salvation may be at hand:

New York Times
Detroit Looks to Health Law to Ease Costs
By Monica Davey and Abby Goodnough, Published: July 28, 2013

As Detroit enters the federal bankruptcy process, the city is proposing a controversial plan for paring some of the $5.7 billion it owes in retiree health costs: pushing many of those too young to qualify for Medicare out of city-run coverage and into the new insurance markets that will soon be operating under the Obama health care law.

Officials say the plan would be part of a broader effort to save Detroit tens of millions of dollars in health costs each year.

It is being watched closely by municipal leaders around the nation, many of whom complain of mounting, unsustainable prices for the health care promised to retired city workers.

Similar proposals that could shift public sector retirees into the new insurance markets, called exchanges, are already being planned or contemplated in places like Chicago; Sheboygan County, Wis.; and Stockton, Calif.

A study issued this year by the Pew Charitable Trusts found 61 of the nation’s major cities wrestling with $126 billion in retiree health costs, all but 6 percent of that unfunded.

All over America, local governments will see Obamacare as a partial solution to otherwise impossible financial problems. Will the Obama administration get on board with this “help-on-a-silver-platter” opportunity?

If large numbers of localities follow that course, it could amount to a significant cost shift to the federal government.

Authors of the health care law expected at least some shifting of retirees into the new insurance exchanges, said Timothy S. Jost, a law professor at Washington and Lee University. “But if a lot of them do, especially big state and local programs that’s going to be a huge cost for the United States government, and it’s mandatory spending.”

And therein lies the problem — the false belief that the federal government can’t afford to pay the bills, and the even more ridiculous beliefs that somehow the cities and states can afford it — or that the retirees should do without.

The Chicago plan would phase some of the city’s 11,800 retirees and their family members not eligible for Medicare out of city coverage by 2017 — (shifting them) to insurance exchanges. The changes are expected to contribute to a larger effort to save Chicago $155 million to $175 million a year in retiree health care costs by 2017.

Now visualize all those Republican-dominated states that have resisted creating Obamacare insurance exchanges. Visualize the billions of dollars in costs that could be shifted from cash-strapped local governments to our Monetarily Sovereign federal government — our government that never can run short of dollars.

Visualize local politicians wanting that money.

The Republicans will howl and moan and scream about the extra costs to the federal government. They will resume the lies that the government is “broke” and “can’t afford” these extra costs, and has to “live within its means.” (John Boehner probably still has those speeches ready for re-use.)

But money to a politician is like raw meat to a starving dog. The local guys will snap up all they can get.

Add these billions to the billions states will receive for Medicaid support, and you have an irresistible force for Obamacare. Obama couldn’t be happier. Right?

Well, not so fast. There is a problem. Obama’s super rich supporters won’t like it. They don’t want the middle- and lower-classes receiving free healthcare. They want those people to spend their last dollars or to do without.

They want the gap between the rich and the rest to widen, not narrow. What’s the good of being super rich, if the “little” people are just as happy as you are, and you can’t make them beg?

No, it’s important to the rich that the underclasses be needy. So this is what I predict:

1. The red states will cave. They’ll say, “Too hell with our phony, austerity ideology; we need that real Obamacare money.”

2. National Republicans will continue lie and complain about “big government,” and the deficit (money supply growth), and continue trying to reinvent themselves as a more compassionate party that really, truly loves minorities — and continue to claim it’s just their message, not their actions, that lose them elections. (Ah, those poor misunderstood Republicans.)

But, being politicians, they’ll lead from the rear, and won’t change until the voters force change.

3. The biggest name to exhibit doubts will be Obama himself — not doubts about his health care plan, but doubts about federal finances. Our “bribed-by-the-rich” President, who supports the fake “need” to balance the federal budget, will find more ways to punish the middle- and lower classes at the behest of the rich.

Yes, he will support his signature accomplishment (for which, by the way, he personally expended little effort), but he will pull more money from middle Americans to “pay for” it.

He again will increase FICA, the most regressive tax in U.S.history. Social Security benefits will be cut, yet again. He will send more federal employees to the unemployment rolls.

Via his notorious “Grand Bargain,” he will ensure that the deficit (money supply growth) will continue to fall. He will cut spending on the myriad projects that benefit the middle- and poor-classes.

4. History will show that Obamacare was a partial success — a complex, convoluted, unnecessarily byzantine partial success, that really should have been a much simpler, much more inclusive, much better Medicare-For-All plan.

Obama will be lauded for insuring more people and for cutting the deficit, just as Clinton was (Never mind that the Clinton surplus caused a recession).

The rich will be happy with Obama. They will give him his big library (as they did, Clinton), and reward him with lucrative speaking engagements (as they do, Clinton) and give the Obama kids great jobs (like Penny Pritzker received).

And for the rest of his life, the Obama’s will enjoy the thrill of hobnobing with rich, famous white people, who privately think he’s a jerk, but love the glory that surrounds him.

The middle- and lower classes will struggle more than ever. The gap between the rich and the rest will widen.

And all will be well with the world.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Monetary Sovereignty

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Nine Steps to Prosperity:
1. Eliminate FICA (Click here)
2. Medicare — parts A, B & D — for everyone
3. Send every American citizen an annual check for $5,000 or give every state $5,000 per capita (Click here)
4. Long-term nursing care for everyone
5. Free education (including post-grad) for everyone. Click here
6. Salary for attending school (Click here)
7. Eliminate corporate taxes
8. Increase the standard income tax deduction annually
9. Increase federal spending on the myriad initiatives that benefit America’s 99%

10 Steps to Economic Misery: (Click here:)
1. Maintain or increase the FICA tax..
2. Spread the myth Social Security, Medicare and the U.S. government are insolvent.
3. Cut federal employment in the military, post office, other federal agencies.
4. Broaden the income tax base so more lower income people will pay.
5. Cut financial assistance to the states.
6. Spread the myth federal taxes pay for federal spending.
7. Allow banks to trade for their own accounts; save them when their investments go sour.
8. Never prosecute any banker for criminal activity.
9. Nominate arch conservatives to the Supreme Court.
10. Reduce the federal deficit and debt

No nation can tax itself into prosperity, nor grow without money growth. Monetary Sovereignty: Cutting federal deficits to grow the economy is like applying leeches to cure anemia.
Two key equations in economics:
1. Federal Deficits – Net Imports = Net Private Savings
2. Gross Domestic Product = Federal Spending + Private Investment and Consumption – Net Imports

#MONETARY SOVEREIGNTY