Thoughts on tax first spend later - a stream-of-consciousness rumination

[Jim Byrne]

Yesterday I posted my stream-of-consciousness rumination on whether the common belief that government must tax first in order to spend later - holds up to scrutiny:

https://mmt101.substack.com/p/the-logical-impossibility-of-neoliberal

No doubt I’ve missed something - but I thought it was worth thinking through the logic of this neoliberal economists mantra. :-)

Jim