richest country on earth immediately stops paying its entire civil service when there's a disagreement on the budget which is something that literally only happens in the USA as far as I know.
I'm sure there's some 🤓☝️ reason like the govt runs on a blockchain that uses proof-of-anti-communist-law-passing to mine new blocks or something
It’s not though. It’s just how supply bill works in most countries.
The Central Bank cannot create new money without the order from the Treasury, and the Treasury spending has to be approved by the Congress/Parliament, which comprise of elected representatives.
That’s how “democracy” is supposed to work, though there are many things we can criticize about liberal bourgeois democracy. In other words, the government is supposed to “work for the people” and is not supposed to create new spending without the explicit approval of representatives elected by the people. This is what would happen in a workers-run enterprise.