Yes, of course it is. It is the right of the government to tax, and as this policy protects, stabilizes and insures the greatest economic benefits of both individual and commercial economic agents since the beginning of human civilization, declaring it otherwise would be to impede the permanently progressive historical phenomenon known as a paradigm change.
Steve Hummel 01/17/2026
Chapters:
Conceptual Analysis: The Resolving Power of Wisdom Within Which Scientific/Systemic Analysis Is a Wholly Contained Set
Monopoly Paradigms: The Clothing of Domination In Morality
Mega Paradigms: The Best Kind of Evolutionary Changes
Grace: The Concept Behind All Paradigm Changes
Trinity: The Synthesis Method of Solutions/Paradigm Changes
Quadrinity: The Fourth Everness State of Trinitarian/Holistic/Paradigmatic Reality and The Beginning of The New Intellectual Discipline of Wisdom/Paradigmology
Great insight Dr. Gundry. In other words a short flow begets continual flowingness as in gracefulness. Habitualize, or better yet consciously self actualize any of the many beneficial aspects of grace/graciousness and you’ll “never put a foot wrong”.
Steve Keen: The “taxes are destroyed upon receipt” trope is MMT’s way of characterising that taxes don’t fund spending. It also emanates from their failure to develop a tool like Ravel to show the interlocking accounts of different sectors of the economy, which led them to amalgamating the Treasury and Central Bank as “the government”,…
Me: Thats true…and its also why everyone and every commercial agent should have an account at the central bank so that it can create and distribute the new monetary paradigm of Strategic Monetary Gifting with a 50% Discount/Rebate policy at retail sale specifically at the points of both regular consumer and financial retail sale (one’s monthly mortgage, auto, insurance or other big ticket item payment).And it would also free the central bank to pay 50% of the retail/ultimate costing/pricing point of governance (the deficit) thus reducing the individual and corporate tax liability of same. That would also transform the central bank from being the hand maiden/re-inforcing agent of the private banks’ present monopoly paradigm of Debt Only during “normal times”, and their bail bondsman when they cyclically de-stabilize the macro-economy...into the agent of the greatest increase in economic democracy since forever.
After all, the central bank being the ultimate creator of money either as debt and especially as GIFTED money, actually need not necessarily owe anyone or anything a burden to pay it back. Finally, reserves are a potentiating form of gifted money. The problem is its only granted to the banks instead of everyone and the banks.
Its an essence. That is it is a/the key/core reality creating and enforcing concept/idea of an entire pattern, system, body of knowledge or area of human endeavor.
What is the paradigm of paradigms? It is reality creating ideas themselves.
So what is the ultimate paradigm? Probably grace which is the active unitary integration of opposites/dualities into a trinity/thirdness greater oneness which is also the very process of the intellectual discipline of Wisdom. Finally, because grace is
Instead of a provably fallacious orthodoxy of equilibrium how about implementing a continuously graceful and stable flow of the economy and yet wherein you can have controllable cyclical ups and downs…with a policy that has aggregative as in macro-economic effect…because the aggregate of EVERYONE participates in and/or is effected by it, namely a 50% Discount/Rebate at retail sale…utilizing the exact same tool and process that virtually all new money is created and distributed by presently, namely double entry bookkeeping? Here’s a list of some of the beneficial and problem resolving effects of this single policy:
1) It transforms chronic erosive inflation into beneficial price and asset deflation for the consumer and yet with the rebate aspect of the problem it guarantees the merchant gets their entire price.
2) It immediately and continuously doubles the potential purchasing power of the individual and hence the potential demand for every enterprise’s goods and services thus ending chronic austerity of individual demand while integrating the up until now opposed self interests of merchant and consumer.
3) It invalidates Freidman’s dictum regarding inflation and the Quantity Theory of Money unless you’re so terminally orthodox that you’re unwilling to look at its effects and hence unable to think a new thought…not unlike neo-classical economists.
4) It breaks up the current human civilization-long monopoly monetary paradigm for the creation and distribution of all new money (Debt Only) with the new applied concept/paradigm of Strategic Monetary Gifting…by discovering and applying a concept that is in complete conceptual opposition to the present paradigm (Debt Only as opposed to Strategic Gifting).
5) And just as a kicker…if we’re smart enough to CONSCIOUSLY do so…it would be the greatest opportunity to self actualize graciousness as in gratitude for a gift since meditation and prayer…and you won’t even have to chant the right words, just go to the store and buy something. So why don’t we all “overturn the tables of the money changers”, put a smile on our faces and increase economic security and freedom like never before? Or we can all just get so frustrated by Trumpian Chaos that we end up mistakenly slugging our neighbor who may or may not be a Trumpist/fascist.
We suffer from economic oligarchy brought on by the present monopolistic monetary paradigm concept for the creation and distribution of all new money known as Debt Only. Creating a new theoretical framework is all well and good, but will only result in palliative reform. The only way to change everything is to change the charcter of the entire system with a new paradigm concept. That concept is Strategic Monetary Gifting at the point of retail sale for all consumer goods and also at the retail point of Finance which is one’s monthly insurance, automobile, mortgage or other big ticket item with a 50% Discount/Rebate policy at those points and also the rest of the new paradigm policy program which will bring ethics, stability and economic democracy to the complexities in the economic system and much more actual freedom for all economic agents than ever before.
Because the beneficial personal and temporal universe effects of every new paradigm has always been an aspect or aspects of the natural philosophical concept of grace…and being in a state of grace is the highest, deepest, wisest, most ethical state of consciousness (love/loving action) and a new personal and temporal universe realization as well.
Personal: Being in the state of the trinitarian integrative/experiential reality of 1) body, 2) mind/abstraction and 3) consciousness itself 4) continually.
Cosmic: The 1) continual 2) inherent reality of the integration of the 3) ever present electro-magnetic flux and a 4) sentient, living or non-living entity.
A very possible if not inevitable future. However, Monetary Gifting is probably still the ultimate first step toward a solution…because money is the tool for action and because Monetary Gifting is an aspect of grace as in loving/humane action…which fits in with your Part 3 hypothesis, no?
What I think it comes down to eventually/soon is the necessity of off planeting energy production, the greater part of production itself and finding the technology of eliciting zero-point energy and anti-gravitic propulsion in order to do so. And thats why the new monetary paradigm policy of a sliding scale percentage requirement of Gifted purchasing power be “taxed” into 5-6% guaranteed Eco-Energy R & D Bonds, is prescient.
Social Credit/Wisdomics/Gracenomics/ Gracientialism 