Ian Tresman

Secondary school teacher.
Modern Money Theory (MMT) enthusiast.
Views are my own.

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@robprogressive Nonsense. It's an average. A millionaire has £1m debt compared to someone who earns minimum wage and has no savings.

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@Rod__Mason Starmer's Labour Party is more right wing than Margaret Thatcher. That's partly why salaries are worth 25% less than a decade ago.right-wing.

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@DCBMEP Nonsense, the UK has monetary sovereignty, and never needs to borrow its own currency.

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@FynnBryan Why give the money to the individual to invest?
Why not just invest the money on behalf of the individual and give them a pension when they retire?
That way it can't be squandered.

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@elonmusk @CommunityNotes Nicolaus Copernicus and his supporters would have been "corrected" for his Heliocentric Model of the Solar System.

"the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." — Galileo Galilei

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@ewarren "AI could generate trillions in wealth in the coming years."

For whom?
It won't be for the public

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@ProfHall1955 In the bond market, "the will of the people" is to make a profit, and for every winner, there are one or more losers.

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@afneil MMT proponents say no such thing.

https://t.co/UtzMBgoKkP

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@lisakeb007 €2.20 a LITRE is about $9.66 per US Gallon.
£1.50 a LITRE is about $7.61 per US Gallon

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@_Unknown_D_ Nonsense, there is no evidence, not a single peer-reviewed paper that supports trickle-down economics.

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@MAGAMAHACindy Everywhere the [neoliberal capitalist] Chicago School crusade has triumphed, it has created a permanent underclass of between 25 and 60 percent of the population.

Source: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
https://t.co/LA99nLgBkq

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@sovrnsociety Everywhere the [neoliberal capitalist] Chicago School crusade has triumphed, it has created a permanent underclass of between 25 and 60 percent of the population.

Source: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
https://t.co/LA99nLgBkq

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@TonyWard867811 The objective was never to "balance the books" but to extract as much money from the economy, as possible. The wealthy have exceeded their expectations, the rest of us are still paying.

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@KarluskaP Follow the money.

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@Jenny_1884 The government does not sell any of these, it's down to the private sector and neoliberalism which aims to maximise profits.

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@Jenny_1884 Privatisation. Neoliberalism.

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@laurenlself During the global financial crash of 2008, we had 2 people who were willing to pay our price. The banks said no.

Our house was not worth what people were willing to pay for it.

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@NoContextHumans But lots of Americans got rich. Read:

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
https://t.co/LA99nLgBkq

The Racket: A Rogue Reporter vs The American Empire
https://t.co/wO4gwkejuB

The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism
https://t.co/hpLIZ1FOrQ

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@Jenny_1884 "Anything We Can Do, We Can Afford"
John Maynard Keynes, in a 1942 BBC address

Taxes do not pay for government spending.
Read: The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton
https://t.co/xbh8CTstmN
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@Jenny_1884 And global corporations should pay their fair share of tax so that they don't pay less than average businesses.