Whatever you might think of other controversializing, no one one the planet understands and presents more clearly the basic economic mechanisms of social democracy than #MattBruenig
from https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/10/26/do-predistribution-people-know-how-to-read/ ht @jdcmedlock
The Abundance Agenda – People's Policy Project
https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/03/24/the-abundance-agenda/
> The Nordic countries don’t use means-tested tax credits to provide cash benefits to children. They just send all of the kids a check each month...the authors miss a chance to see how the inefficiency and administrative burdens they loathe in construction actually plague the welfare state too, something liberals are very much to blame for but also have no desire to fix. - #mattbruenig
do most American workers live “paycheck to paycheck”?
maybe. it depends what that means.
see #MattBruenig https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/03/19/how-many-people-live-paycheck-to-paycheck
this #MattBruenig piece on health care economics is a work of art.
1) administrative costs associated with health insurance are HUGE, not a rounding error next to inflated provider costs;
2) the only justification for those costs would be to rein in provider rents, but not only do private insurers fail to, they have structural incentives to let them grow.
read this one.
Steve Randy Waldman
Camille Winds Down
