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@paul_d_stevens "@an0n_Nic Taxes dont pay for benefits. Or anything else for that matter. So this productive vs unproductive othering youve got going on is meaningless. Im no worse off being a taxpayer who receives no benefits because others are receiving benefits"
X Link @paul_d_stevens 2025-10-13T18:51Z 2320 followers, XX engagements

"@an0n_Nic .the government creates money every time it spends. Tax does not fund spending: tax is the consequence of government spending and is required to prevent inflation resulting from excessive money supply. Tax comes after government spending"
X Link @paul_d_stevens 2025-10-13T18:53Z 2320 followers, XX engagements

"@an0n_Nic The UK government creates money when it spends. Tax doesnt fund spending: tax is the necessary consequence of government spending and is required to prevent inflation resulting from excessive money supply. Tax comes after government spending"
X Link @paul_d_stevens 2025-10-13T08:19Z 2321 followers, XX engagements

"@robprogressive Where do you shop: Harrods Fortnum & Mason"
X Link @paul_d_stevens 2025-10-15T16:08Z 2320 followers, XXX engagements

"@JoeSmit40807159 @Askrigg_lad We literally voted for France (and the rest of the EU) to treat us like a Third Country. We wanted this. Now weve got it. We have no right to complain. Boycotts cant reverse what we willingly brought upon ourselves"
X Link @paul_d_stevens 2025-10-12T07:27Z 2313 followers, XX engagements

"@Baggywhacker @MikeSouthWestUK has anything to do with taxes. Not really. Not in the way the parties say it does. The reality is taxes dont pay for government spending"
X Link @paul_d_stevens 2025-10-14T16:01Z 2314 followers, X engagements

"@moo2n @TomTugendhat Communism is not a form of fascism. They are both authoritarian systems in practice in some cases but they come from opposite ideological roots and have very different goals and principles"
X Link @paul_d_stevens 2025-10-11T13:42Z 2313 followers, 2542 engagements

"@Atlastours67 @sallonsax bye bye richies. The government creates money every time it spends. Tax does not fund spending; tax is the necessary consequence of government spending and is required to prevent inflation resulting from excessive money supply"
X Link @paul_d_stevens 2025-10-12T14:07Z 2313 followers, XX engagements

"@an0n_Nic Tax doesnt fund anything. Who needs the Laffer curve"
X Link @paul_d_stevens 2025-10-13T08:17Z 2320 followers, XX engagements

"@MelJStride @Telegraph Your message to Rachel Reeves is characteristically ridiculous. Given your partys record on borrowing and taxes. There is no reason the Chancellor should cut government spending: weve had"
X Link @paul_d_stevens 2025-10-13T07:34Z 2321 followers, XXX engagements

"@Lord_Orc_4th @MichaelKic47475 @Heccles94 The UK government creates money every time it spends. Tax does not fund spending: tax is the necessary consequence of government spending required to prevent inflation from excessive money supply. Tax comes after government spending"
X Link @paul_d_stevens 2025-10-14T17:13Z 2320 followers, XX engagements

"@Conservatives Is Starmer to sic weak to stand up to XX MPs at the most Hes not of the left. Nor is most of the PLP. The left of the PLP (a couple of dozen people) is not stopping Starmer doing anything. Only Starmer is stopping Starmer"
X Link @paul_d_stevens 2025-10-14T15:04Z 2321 followers, XX engagements

"@Baggywhacker @MikeSouthWestUK This is a bit more like the actual cycle. The Tories cut everything to the bone for ideological reasons (they hate public services). Someone has to step in and pick up the pieces. Usually Labour. They spend some money. But none of this"
X Link @paul_d_stevens 2025-10-14T15:59Z 2316 followers, XX engagements

"@Lord_Orc_4th @MichaelKic47475 @Heccles94 Good grief not this again 🙄"
X Link @paul_d_stevens 2025-10-14T17:11Z 2320 followers, XX engagements

"@RichardJMurphy @LargeWlarge63 Uses MMT I thought MMT describes how the government (and banks) create the money circulating in the economy by spending it (the government) and lending it (the banks): as opposed to the idea that taxes fund government spending (which of course they dont)"
X Link @paul_d_stevens 2025-10-12T08:15Z 2313 followers, XX engagements

"@Atlastours67 @sallonsax curb their ability to undemocratically buy power. And even if they do leave (unlikely but still) we dont need their tax to fund anything so"
X Link @paul_d_stevens 2025-10-12T14:05Z 2313 followers, XX engagements