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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Totally agree. I am definately an MMTer myself. The mailman example is very good, by the way.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

It took me a while to get the idea that money could be debt / IOUs. But, when I thought of government employees doing things for the government and getting given IOUs it clicked.

That all makes it much easier to understand the flow of IOUs through the economy, and much easier to understand how taxing destroys money. It's the government ripping up IOUs that it itself issued to its own workers (or suppliers or contractors or whatever).