Dave Johnson

I live in the UK now. !!! I love my allotment.

I was a Senior Fellow at Campaign for America's Future, doing a lot of writing, radio & some TV.

In Silicon Valley I was in various positions at various companies. And before that I was a videogame designer at Atari & Imagic.

I was an AFSCME Chief Steward in Ann Arbor.

I am Dave Johnson (npub1xgl…8cqp) at Twitter.

#ClimateChange #USPolitics #SocialJustice #MMT #HealthcareForAll #democracy #corruption #Toriesout #EndFossilFuel

Seeing the Forest: https://seeingtheforest.com
MMT: We CAN Have Nice Things (MMT): https://wecanhavenicethings.com
Imagine Democracy: https://democracyandcommunity.org
Government Cheese - chronicling the collapse of democracy: https://governmentcheese.info

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2024-11-02 16:26:32 GMT

So ... who still thinks society should allow billionaires?
It's time to restore pre-Reagan/Thatcher top tax rates on the wealthy & their corporations.
AND add a wealth tax to start clawing back the trillions that have been shifted upwards since those tax cuts.
#billionaires

2024-10-30 07:26:34 GMT

There's a word for people who vote for candidates who hold rallies where people are waving Nazi flags and calling for mass deportations.
What is that word?
#Nazis

2024-10-29 10:03:15 GMT

Austerity logic:
Making people spend 20,30,40 a month more to use crumbling transportation infrastructure, instead of spending that at local businesses, will "grow the economy."
#austerity

2024-10-28 08:41:07 GMT

Billionaires do not buy major information outlets to make money.
They buy them to use them.
#propaganda #billionaires

2024-10-25 06:15:10 GMT

The people saying it would "cost too much" to address the climate crisis are the people who will stop making huge money from oil and coal. It would cost THEM.
Unfortunately they control governments.
#climatecrisis #corruption

2024-10-24 08:42:29 GMT

What is austerity?
If you believe taxes fund government, and your government is controlled by the wealthiest and their corporations, then you will impose austerity in order to keep taxes low on the wealthiest and their corporations.
Simple explanations to simple questions.
#austerity

2024-10-20 17:05:07 GMT

Corporations are not sentient entities. They are contracts. They do not "do" things. They do not make decisions. Executives do.
When corporate activity breaks a law or harms people, it means the executives decided to do that.
When a corporation has been fined for something, what you are witnessing is the executives being let off the hook for what they did. Perhaps the prosecutor/regulator wants to keep get big money from corporations after leaving government.
#corruption #corporations

2024-10-14 10:48:23 GMT

If you want to understand the UK and it's medieval attitude about money, read up on the Beeching Commission. In the early 60s the UK closed 55% of rail stations & 1/3 of rail lines, laid off 67K jobs to "save money."
This killed industries & villages & future growth of regions.
#UK #beeching

2024-09-29 11:47:35 GMT

Part of the neoliberal takeover project was convincing people that government required "taxpayer money" to operate while cutting taxes. Then drive fear of deficits and "debt."
This would "starve" government, cut regulatory enforcement and force privatization asset stripping.
#MMT #debt

2024-09-23 07:16:10 GMT

The "national debt" means money spent into the economy but not taxed back out.
That's it. That's all. It is not "borrowed." It is not "owed" to anyone. It does not have to be "repaid."
The use of the word "debt" is a legacy from days when kings had to round up gold.
#debt #money #MMT

2024-09-09 08:03:25 GMT

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And now, fighting the climate crisis is the primary job of governments everywhere. The oil & coal companies MUST be stopped. A "Green New Deal" that transforms the economy to a green economy while providing prosperity for everybody can be achieved.
#Climate

2024-09-09 08:01:45 GMT

Government spending is what grows an economy. Every time, every place.
The JOB of government, in a democracy, is to spend to make people's lives better. Education, healthcare, infrastructure, the arts... Democracy brings mutual prosperity. Taxes are for redistribution to equalize society.
#government #deocracy

2024-09-05 08:05:32 GMT

Tax cuts DO NOT "grow the economy." They ONLY make inequality worse.
One example, 2012 US Congressional study found no correlation between tax cuts and growth. https://www.nytimes.com/news/business/0915taxesandeconomy.pdf
Another
London School of Economics
Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich: debunking trickle-down economics
https://www.lse.ac.uk/research/research-for-the-world/economics/tax-cuts-for-the-wealthy-only-benefit-the-rich-debunking-trickle-down-economics
#taxes #growth

2024-09-04 11:05:08 GMT

George McGovern was a white male centrist war hero who Republicans smeared as a communist. Jimmy Carter was a white male centrist military hero who Republicans smeared as weak. John Kerry was a white male centrist war hero who Republicans smeared as a coward.
So the US got Nixon, Reagan & W Bush. How'd that work out for the country?
#Republicans #smears

2024-09-04 08:50:33 GMT

Tax cuts do not and never did "boost growth." That's a lie told by people who wanted their taxes cut.
#taxes #ineuality

2024-08-23 10:41:14 GMT

People repeat nonsense corporate anti-tax propaganda that companies will increase prices to cover taxes.
Preposterous.
Taxes are on profits. Companies don't know what their taxes will be till the end of the tax year.
If a company COULD raise its prices (taxes or not) it already would have.
If it really DID raise prices their profits would go up, so their taxes would too. So they'd have to raise prices again! But then they'd have more profits ...
#taxes #propaganda

2024-08-23 10:29:21 GMT

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Hold executives and Directors of corporations accountable.

2024-08-22 16:00:11 GMT

People don't understand what corporations are
A corp is a legal contract They are entirely creations of govt. Corps exist for the good of the public. WHY ELSE would a democracy allow them?
Corps are not sentient entities. They do not "do" anything. Executives do.
Shareholders do not "own" a corp, they have a claim on its assets in a bankruptcy. (Often after lenders.)
You can't punish a corp. A fine only takes shareholder money. PUNISH EXECUTIVES for corp harms!
#corporations #democracy

2024-08-21 11:58:56 GMT

I try to follow people who boost my toots, because clearly they have good taste.
#mastodon

2024-08-19 06:49:03 GMT

In the 60s the top US income tax rate was 90%. Corporations paid 50% on profits. Similar for UK.
People don't know that.
Now the middle class "shoulders the tax burden" instead, and billionaires tell the government what to do.
#taxes

2024-08-16 07:24:07 GMT

Migrants are good. Multiculturalism is good. Migrants should be encouraged.
Care for refugees. Love all people.
#asylum #migrants #bordercrisis

2024-06-09 10:03:35 GMT

I wish medieval gold-standard economics would finally disappear. We no longer have to round up or borrow gold to pay for things.
But we still have people believing in witches, etc. So I guess superstitions do hang on.
But if you're still stuck on "taxes are revenue" & "printing money is borrowing" then:
Top tax rates used to be 90%. Top corp rates used to be much higher as well.
If you restore those tax rates you can "pay for" healthcare, military, social programs, pensions.
#money

2024-06-08 08:10:11 GMT

Climate crisis = forced immigration.
Have you noticed that the politicians who say there are "waves" and "invasions" of immigrants are the same politicians who refuse to fight the climate crisis that is causing mass migration that can only get much much worse?
#immigration #climate #climatecrisis

2024-05-16 06:19:31 GMT

Countries that spent a lot on things for the public, and countries that had austerity, both had high inflation.
But the countries that spent on the public are now booming, the austerity countries are struggling.
#inflation