Sweden -- The Nation is Out of Money

["John Gelles" <jjgelles@xxxxxxxx>]

	"Sweden in 1998 has very little in common with
	that Sweden I grew up in. The decay is frightful,
	and I would say that the economic part of it is the
	least scary of all. Much worse is the corruption
	and apathy, the cheating and lying, on which the
	present Sweden is 'built'. At the heart of it is the
	'National Lie' (Rikslögnen), as I have ventured to
	call it, the doctrine that the State is 'running out of
	money', and, therefore, that fiscal policies can never
	be tight enough. This National Lie is the rotten heart
	of Sweden, and it was put in place by Lindbeck and
	his thugs. Once in place, the society crumbles, slowly
	but surely, all by itself."
					-- Per Berglund

	When a thing of beauty is laid waste by the wanton
	acts of superstitious men, the sane and the innocent
	who loved that beauty can be excused if their words
	wander over the top.  Think of what is being lost and
	the words express the pain -- they are another form
	of tears.

	That said, let us get down to facts.  Do we see
	nations running out of money?  We certainly do see
	them assessing taxes that take money back from
	"superstitious" voters for government payrolls and
	to make government purchases (on behalf of the
	voters to provide their needs).  The voters may be
	content with most of this provisioning -- but they
	dearly miss the money!

	The nation may not be running out of money, but
	then  WHY  are they taking mine and making me
	sick as they do it?

	Per has answered this matter in his New School
	paper and elsewhere in his design for ending taxes
	in favor of stable annual economic growth.  Such
	growth, under principles of functional finance, can
	pay for government operations without inflation or
	taxes.

	In a similar interpretation of these principles, I have
	added savings to growth as a substitute for taxes.

	Now if the lie is that nations do not really run out
	of money (as long as they produce the things money
	can buy), whose lie is it?  Sweden's?  Or PKT's?

	          For we here have certainly contributed to
	voter resistance against  TAKING  their money  IF
	we are  NOT  running out of it!

	PKT has failed to rally to the functional finance
	paradigm that can remove from anti-Keynesian
	sloganeering the "tax and spend" label that
	empowers our opposition.

	          In its place must be:  Save, to grow and
	green the national economy, as we offer all voters
	the peace of mind they need:

	                    The nation cannot run out of money
	because  NEITHER  CAN  YOU -- and to prove
	it, here are all your taxes still in your name -- part
	of the national financial structure, in your individual
	estate account.

	     John Gelles