“The tax is there to create a demand for the government’s currency. Before anyone can pay the tax, someone has to do the work to earn the currency.” (Stephanie Kelton)
— AXEC (@EgmontHandtke) June 19, 2026
“… this one neat trick to control an entire population.” (Robert Murphy)
This is the usual psychologism,…
“How is what I said about Kelton any different from what you said about me?” (Robert Murphy)
— AXEC (@EgmontHandtke) June 19, 2026
As a matter of principle, what you or I or anybody else said about Stephanie Kelton is irrelevant. Economics is not gossip about people but an analysis of the economic system. As Ricardo…
The point is that your economics, and that of MMT, is proven to be false, and that you are engaging in silly psychologism. What anybody's motives are is irrelevant as far as economics as a science is concerned. Your posts are disinfotainment.
— AXEC (@EgmontHandtke) June 20, 2026