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  • States empowered to stop reckless defecits

    Rep. Terry Moore-HD54 and Sen. Tom McGillvray-SD23|Updated Dec 29, 2021

    In August of 2020, we wrote an opinion opposing Modern Monetary Theory (or MMT, the "too good to be true" idea that the federal government can spend unlimited amounts of money, regardless of revenue, in order to benefit the country and the economy). We disagreed with MMT on the strongest terms. Since that time, the federal government has added $8.4 trillion dollars to our national debt, which now stands at $29.2 trillion. We appealed to the common sense that the government...