Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Another way is to ration goods - think of WWII, or direct economic interventions ...
Another way is to ration goods - think of WWII, or direct economic interventions during covid lockdowns. A third way is to sell bonds, which is just a roundabout way of getting us to promise not to spend some of our dollars for a while, in return for a smaller number of dollars in interest payments:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/08/howard-dino/#payforsFDR knew all of this, but he still told the American people that their taxes were funding Social Security, thinking that this would protect the program.
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