Marc Cuniberti Blames Decades of Deficit Spending for Inflation and Socialism Calls
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Updated · The Union · May 14
Marc Cuniberti Blames Decades of Deficit Spending for Inflation and Socialism Calls
1 articles · Updated · The Union · May 14
Marc Cuniberti argues that long-running U.S. deficit spending, not socialism itself, is the root policy failure now driving voters toward self-described democratic-socialist leaders in cities such as Seattle and New York.
He says persistent government spending beyond production effectively creates unbacked money, eroding each dollar’s value and producing inflation that hits low-income and working-class households first.
That inflation, he writes, transfers wealth upward, concentrates assets among a smaller elite and widens inequality until demands for redistribution and socialist policies gain political traction.
Cuniberti contends those remedies ultimately worsen the problem by weakening incentives, further impoverishing lower-income groups and concentrating wealth even more.
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