The EU's fiscal rules don't stop spending because they're economically necessary. They stop it because member states chose to accept them. That is a political fact, not a law of nature. Change the politics, and public investment can move. The constraint is political will, not euros.

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"The bond markets won't allow it." Not true. The Bank of England sets interest rates. Markets don't veto a currency issuer's spending. Build your counter-argument.

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The government designs a national care service for older people while working-age disabled adults are left to fend for themselves. Not a resource problem. A political choice about who counts.

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Source: Guardian Politics

Promises, Promises
Pension Adequacy and the Financing of Social Care

"The decisive variables remain the wage of the care worker and the rent paid by the pensioner"
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The government "can't afford" youth politics. A currency issuer that literally creates pounds chooses not to fund democratic participation. That's not a budget problem. That's a values problem.

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Source: BBC Politics

Wage theft disguised as a supply-chain story. A currency issuer can fund public energy capacity and anchor wages through the Job Guarantee. It chooses to let workers absorb inflation instead.

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Source: Guardian Business

Sure Start worked. Now watch ministers credit "efficiency" while underfunding the next generation. Early childhood isn't a legacy to coast on. It's real spending on real brains. The currency issuer can afford it.

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Source: Guardian Politics

Independent regulator to cap fees while leaseholders stay trapped in the system. The government can't regulate its way out of what it should just fix: make leasehold itself optional. Real power means choice, not better complaints forms.

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Suki is a trained nurse in Stafford ready to specialise in paediatric intensive care. The training exists. The equipment exists. The hospitals need her. HM Treasury says the money doesn't. But a government that issues its own currency cannot run out of pounds.

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Green Party campaigns won't win on their economics if they accept the lie that government budgets like households. The UK government issues the pound. It cannot run out of money. Stop apologising for spending on climate, housing, and the NHS.

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Your comment shows that you don't understand #MMT so again I recommend that you watch the film in which the people that developed MMT give a very clear description of the basics.
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The government is creating new money every day. It does it every time it spends.
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The government can only create new money if there are resources available for it to buy. It is the process of spending that creates new money. Any #MMT aware government would consider both available resources and inflation when making spending decisions.

If the UAE halt UK investment there is nothing stopping the government creating the money to fill the gap and produce publicly owned infrastructure.
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Selling bonds is simply a way of removing money from circulation as tax does. Governments that create their own money as they spend also have to remove and destroy money.
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Any involuntary unemployment is unused resources that the government could create the money to make use of (a job guarantee).
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Very simply, the government doesn't spend any of the money from the sale of bonds in the same way as a bank doesn't spend any of the money deposited by savers.
The sale of bonds simply swaps one type of money for another that bears interest.
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Economist on YouTube says the deficit is the problem. Wrong frame. Run the video through an MMT lens and find what actually matters: is the economy at real-resource capacity? That's the question that predicts inflation.

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Fire-and-rehire is a choice, not necessity. Glasgow gets a block grant from Westminster. Why is the currency issuer starving council payroll instead of funding it?

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Source: Guardian Politics

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