Second, the federal government has the advantage of being able to deficit spend to keep universal healthcare solvent that states don’t. MMT keeps the lights on.

That’s actually a valid concern but IMHO it just shows how utterly broken our financial system it is if it relies on money being printed anew continuously, instead of creating functioning tax systems for the state to raise money to feed itself.

Why is this slop? They do have a point. Why not implement social services at the local level?

They’re really good comics! The comic series (you linked it) even has story development and coherency over time. It’s really impressive.