If I were a better writer, I'd write an ongoing series called something like: "What Progressives Need to Know About Money". Unfortunately, I'm not a very good writer and am sort of lazy to boot.

However, it pains me everyday to see progressives continuously falling into the neoliberal/austerian trap of either asking how stuff might get paid for or merely assuming that in order to have nice social stuff we have to tax someone, hopefully the wealthy.