James A. Robichaux
@jamesrobichaux.bsky.social
I am working to purge the dishonest and destructive mythologies of Monetarism and taxpayerism from people's brains.
You can read my essays on those subjects here:
https://jamesarobichaux.substack.com/
You can read my essays on those subjects here:
https://jamesarobichaux.substack.com/
Pay attention to what is happening at CBS, because it is very bad, but it is, as Adam Johnson writes here, part of a broader problem.
therealnews.com/bari-weiss-a...
therealnews.com/bari-weiss-a...
Bari Weiss and the post-liberal media order
The tabloid-ification of CBS News is a marked escalation in our trend towards AI-driven confectionary reality.
therealnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Pay attention to what is happening at CBS, because it is very bad, but it is, as Adam Johnson writes here, part of a broader problem.
therealnews.com/bari-weiss-a...
therealnews.com/bari-weiss-a...
No, it is not a "taxpayer-funded" anything at all, and you are only *reinforcing* the fascist moral framework and everything that stems from it by employing and, thus, further legitimizing that disgusting and dishonest "taxpayer" trope.
November 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
No, it is not a "taxpayer-funded" anything at all, and you are only *reinforcing* the fascist moral framework and everything that stems from it by employing and, thus, further legitimizing that disgusting and dishonest "taxpayer" trope.
Your theory of money is your theory of social relations, and Monetarism is a conservative-libertarian moral framework.
The Commodity Theory Of Money is wrong.
The Credit Theory Of Money is correct.
jamesarobichaux.substack.com/p/the-collec...
The Commodity Theory Of Money is wrong.
The Credit Theory Of Money is correct.
jamesarobichaux.substack.com/p/the-collec...
The 'Collection Plate' Narrative Of Taxation Is Poisoning Society
The most common progressive-liberal narrative about taxation actually exists wholly within a conservative-libertarian framework and is paralytically myopic, and the consequences are deadly.
jamesarobichaux.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Your theory of money is your theory of social relations, and Monetarism is a conservative-libertarian moral framework.
The Commodity Theory Of Money is wrong.
The Credit Theory Of Money is correct.
jamesarobichaux.substack.com/p/the-collec...
The Commodity Theory Of Money is wrong.
The Credit Theory Of Money is correct.
jamesarobichaux.substack.com/p/the-collec...
This is NOT irrational, but, even if you think that it is, we still need to reject this horrible, awful, dishonest framework.
jamesarobichaux.substack.com/p/why-taxpay...
jamesarobichaux.substack.com/p/why-taxpay...
Why 'Taxpayer' Identity And Thinking Is Morally Bankrupt In Every Context
'Taxpayer' identity and thinking is not appropriate even when discussing measures at the state and local levels.
jamesarobichaux.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
This is NOT irrational, but, even if you think that it is, we still need to reject this horrible, awful, dishonest framework.
jamesarobichaux.substack.com/p/why-taxpay...
jamesarobichaux.substack.com/p/why-taxpay...
NO SELF-RESPECTING PERSON wants to be a "tax eater". Offer them universal healthcare under this framework, and they will reject it, because being a "taxeater" is so shameful that many would rather die.
jamesarobichaux.substack.com/p/the-tax-to...
jamesarobichaux.substack.com/p/the-tax-to...
The Tax-To-Spend Myth Fuels Hatred And Oppression Of The Poor And Marginalized
A recent Facebook meme demonstrates that a major source of contempt for the poor and marginalized is the tax-to-spend myth - and progressive and liberal people's dignification of it.
jamesarobichaux.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
NO SELF-RESPECTING PERSON wants to be a "tax eater". Offer them universal healthcare under this framework, and they will reject it, because being a "taxeater" is so shameful that many would rather die.
jamesarobichaux.substack.com/p/the-tax-to...
jamesarobichaux.substack.com/p/the-tax-to...
This is why we MUST kill this mythology and moral framework. It drives both Trumpism and the Neoliberal centrism of the Democratic Party as well as some of the dumber proposals and rhetoric that comes from both-party-critical progressives and socialists.
web.archive.org/web/20240417...
web.archive.org/web/20240417...
The Dangerous Lie of 'Tax-To-Spend' | Real Progressives
When you consider the worst ramifications of the most insidious myths of mainstream economic theory, arguably the very worst, most damaging one is the 'tax-to-spend' myth.
web.archive.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This is why we MUST kill this mythology and moral framework. It drives both Trumpism and the Neoliberal centrism of the Democratic Party as well as some of the dumber proposals and rhetoric that comes from both-party-critical progressives and socialists.
web.archive.org/web/20240417...
web.archive.org/web/20240417...
it's quite another thing to be ashamed that you are being funded by funds being forcibly taken from other people, thereby giving others hierarchical social power over you, with a sense that they can make demands of you based on the fact that you need them and "their money".
November 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
it's quite another thing to be ashamed that you are being funded by funds being forcibly taken from other people, thereby giving others hierarchical social power over you, with a sense that they can make demands of you based on the fact that you need them and "their money".
How much of that shame is due to the Tax-To-Spend mythology? the perception that SNAP and other publicly-funded social-welfare measures are funded by "other people's money"?
because it's one thing to be ashamed that you can't make it from the revenue that you derive from work or family wealth.
because it's one thing to be ashamed that you can't make it from the revenue that you derive from work or family wealth.
November 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
How much of that shame is due to the Tax-To-Spend mythology? the perception that SNAP and other publicly-funded social-welfare measures are funded by "other people's money"?
because it's one thing to be ashamed that you can't make it from the revenue that you derive from work or family wealth.
because it's one thing to be ashamed that you can't make it from the revenue that you derive from work or family wealth.
And the shame. The terrible, terrible shame. Until this moment, only three other people in the world knew that I relied on federal food assistance." -- @joannarakoff.bsky.social
And, of course, we must ask a question here.
www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
And, of course, we must ask a question here.
www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
Someone you know relies on SNAP. They just don't talk about it
Two years before she went on public assistance, Joanna Rakoff had a best-selling novel that won literary awards. She presented like a middle class working mom. But in reality, she was struggling — wor...
www.wbur.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
And the shame. The terrible, terrible shame. Until this moment, only three other people in the world knew that I relied on federal food assistance." -- @joannarakoff.bsky.social
And, of course, we must ask a question here.
www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
And, of course, we must ask a question here.
www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
Reposted by James A. Robichaux
When even Ezra Klein and Matty Iglesias are saying how terrible a move this is, you KNOW it was bad.
Truly, I will accept no less than Schumer/Durbin or a complete reversal to get any support for the future.
Truly destroying all of last Tuesday’s hope & gains in one fell swoop.
Truly, I will accept no less than Schumer/Durbin or a complete reversal to get any support for the future.
Truly destroying all of last Tuesday’s hope & gains in one fell swoop.
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
When even Ezra Klein and Matty Iglesias are saying how terrible a move this is, you KNOW it was bad.
Truly, I will accept no less than Schumer/Durbin or a complete reversal to get any support for the future.
Truly destroying all of last Tuesday’s hope & gains in one fell swoop.
Truly, I will accept no less than Schumer/Durbin or a complete reversal to get any support for the future.
Truly destroying all of last Tuesday’s hope & gains in one fell swoop.