Long ago, I was exiled from all my nominally «progressive» circles for insisting that taxation was largely punitive for most people and unnecessary in most circumstances, i.e. effectively theft and a transfer to oligarchs. Ironically, those circles have now embraced a crackpot implementation of MMT, which has turned into another magic money tree for oligarchs. And the things we need are still under- or un- funded.
Long ago, I was exiled from all my nominally «progressive» circles for insisting that taxation was largely punitive for most people and unnecessary in most circumstances, i.e. effectively theft and a transfer to oligarchs. Ironically, those circles have now embraced a crackpot implementation of MMT, which has turned into another magic money tree for oligarchs. And the things we need are still under- or un- funded.
The Kamala bourbon meme looks to me like Obama doing a female impersonation.