WE CAN AFFORD IT BECAUSE WE DETERMINE HOW MUCH MONEY IS IN THE SYSTEM. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS NOT LIKE ANY OTHER USER OF CURRENCY, NOT ANY LOCAL STATE OR GOVERNMENT. WE ISSUE OUR OWN CURRENCY AND WE CAN SPEND ENOUGH TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. THE ONLY CONSTRAINT BEING THAT WE DO HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT INFLATION FROM ASPEN -- FROM THAT SPENDING. WE HAVE SO MUCH DEBT AND OUR GRANDCHILDREN, IT IS GOING TO BE ON THEIR BACKS. THAT IS NOT THE WAY IT WORKS. THE MAKING NEED AN EDUCATION ON HOW THE MONETARY SYSTEM DOES WORK. I REMEMBER WHEN …
Watershed. Every MMTer has experienced a congressperson's reply "Yes I get it, but I can't say that in public". Yet here we are. A bona fide public education by @RepJohnYarmuth. Not to forget, it's also thanks to @AOC & the #Squad who first dared speak the truth about gov budgets
so uh chair yarmouth i mean how can we
spend six trillion dollars and all the
other money that president
biden wants to spend how can we afford?
Y
it uh we can't afford it because uh
we determine how much money is in the
system and and at the federal level
you know the government the federal
government is not like any other user of
currency not like any household any
business any state or local government
we issue our own currency and we can
spend enough to meet the needs of the
american people
uh is the only constraint being that we
have to do we do have to worry about
inflation uh from that spending now
you know what so many people say well
we've been you know we've got so much
debt and
our grandchildren are going to have it's
going to be on their backs and so forth
that's not the way it works and and i
think the american people need an
education
about how the money monetary system does
work
i remember going back granted to uh when
paul ryan was chair of the budget
committee and even before that
and and all of these forecasts of gloom
and doom about
oh we're going to accumulate so much
debt and interest rates are going to
crowd out
all other spending well we basically
doubled the national debt
from the recession in 2009 until
uh last year before the pandemic
and none of the things that people
warned what happened happened we didn't
have inflation
we uh had record low interest rates
rather than higher interest rates
and the dollar was trading within normal
uh levels vis-a-vis other currencies
so i think a lot of economists now are
have begun to say wait a minute
maybe we've been thinking about debt in
entirely the wrong way
and even even fed chair jay pal has
basically said
we have the fiscal space to do what we
need to do right now
to make the investments we need to make
to build the kind of economy for the
future that we all
hope will have.
Q
well why are people wrong
about this
and how should we be thinking about debt
and deficits?
Y
well i i i don't get any royalties from
this but i would flog a book called the
deficit myth by
stephanie kelton um an economist and
professor
and it's become quite a bestseller
actually and what she
says is that if you look at the the
total national debt 28 trillion dollars
right now is the what we we think of as
the national debt she said don't think
of it as debt
think of it as all the money that the
federal government has invested in the
country over our history
minus taxes and that's really what it is
i mean those 28 trillion dollars didn't
exist
uh before the federal government issued
them
and so the federal government has the
ability to create
uh create money create uh financing
and that's what we've been doing we'll
continue to do the thing that
i am so impressed about from the biden
administration
is that they're reversing decades and
decades
of our asking questions in the wrong
order uh
historically what we've always done is
said what can we afford to do
and that's not the right question the
right question is what do the american
people need us to do
and that's that question that becomes
the first
question once you've answered that then
you say how do how do you resource that
um that need and that's not just money
that's also
capacity so for instance uh there's a
225
billion dollar investment in child care
in the american families plan uh and
but you can't just say we're going to
give 225 billion dollars
to people to pay for their child care
because they're not enough capacity so
what you do is you make a false promise
to the people
and then you would drive the price of
existing child care even higher
so what you have to do is spend part of
that money on
building capacity so that there's enough
child care to actually
service the people who need it so again
they're just very different ways of
thinking about money and i understand
why
most people don't understand this
concept because
they think of it in their own framework
which is their household which is
you can't borrow so much money that you
can't pay back
but that's not the position that the
federal government's in.
Q
congressman are
you saying
we can just print more money and there's
no consequences?
Y
there could be consequences if there is
too
too much inflation so let me give you a
hypothetical we could say
that we're going to give every american
family a 200
000 voucher to buy a house we could we
could create the money to do that
but what would happen well there's not
enough housing so the prices of existing
houses would go through the roof no pun
intended uh and again you'd be creating
a false promise but you meanwhile you
you drive up the housing market to
unsustainable levels so there is a limit
as to how much money we can inject into
the economy
the thing about the rescue plan and
here's where i think kevin hearn
makes a mistake is he said six trillion
dollars
uh family uh the family uh american
families plan and job plan
it's not quite that much but that's over
eight to ten years
so the six billion six trillion dollar
budget
that the president proposed actually
would have been 5.7 trillion
if you had had no american jobs plan or
american rescue plan
because only 300 billion of that is in
fiscal year 22.
so again you've got to realize these are
numbers that
are very large of course but they're
spread out over a number of years and
that's why
i think the fed chair and others have
said
we have the fiscal space to do this
because injecting this
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