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Only the states can tackle this disastrous spending problem

by TERRY MOORE and TOM MCGILLVRAY
| January 4, 2022 7:00 AM

In August of 2020, we wrote an opinion opposing modern monetary theory (or MMT, the “too good to be true” idea that the federal government can spend unlimited amounts of money, regardless of revenue, in order to benefit the country and the economy). We disagreed with MMT on the strongest terms. Since that time, the federal government has added $8...

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