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To: Letters Editor Cc: Andrew Coyne <acoyne@postmedia.com>
Subject: Andrew Coyne: Public spending should rise because it needs to, not just because it can, March 17, 2017
http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/andrew-coyne-until-public-sector-becomes-miraculously-efficient-theres-only-one-way-to-assess-spending
Stuff happens - ice storms, earthquakes, pandemics, and financial crises. When these erupt, we expect our federal government to take decisive action to relieve our distress. A response,"Sorry about your suffering, but we've reached our real per-capita spending limit" would be totally unacceptable.
The trouble with fiscal anchors is that they are without economic justification, and are usually ideologically inclined toward smaller government. In a world of continuing social, technological and environmental change, the federal government must be sensitive to effects of real-world events on the population, and must use its fiscal capacity (which comes from owning the Bank of Canada) to best serve the public interest. Arbitrary limits are counter-productive.
Footnotes:
1. William Mitchell is Professor in Economics and Director of the Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE), University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=31487
"The relevant goals should be about the outcomes that make societies prosperous and inclusive � goods schools and hospitals, good public transport, full employment, strong income support safety nets for those who cannot work, socially responsible minimum wages etc.
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Forget the deficit. Forget the fiscal balance. Focus on what matters � employment, equity, environmental sustainability. And as we would soon see � the fiscal balance will just be whatever it is � a relatively uninteresting and irrelevant statistical artifact."
2. What is Modern Monetary Theory, or �MMT�?
http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2013/03/what-is-modern-monetary-theory-or-mmt.html
"The essential insight of Modern Monetary Theory (or �MMT�) is that sovereign, currency-issuing countries are only constrained by real limits. They are not constrained, and cannot be constrained, by purely financial limits because, as issuers of their respective fiat-currencies, they can never �run out of money.� This doesn�t mean that governments can spend without limit, or overspend without causing inflation, or that government should spend any sum unwisely. What it emphatically does mean is that no such sovereign government can be forced to tolerate mass unemployment because of the state of its finances � no matter what that state happens to be.
Virtually all economic commentary and punditry today, whether in America, Europe or most other places, is based on ideas about the monetary system which are not merely confused � they are starkly and comprehensively counter-factual."
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