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[–] 33 points 9 months ago (4 children)

That's not how national debt works you absolute ladle.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago

    Americans are trained to believe that our National Debt is some kind of foreign imposed obligation that comes with the threat of sanctions and military intervention if we fail to pay it. Because that's how we handle debts international, it must be how we handle debts internally.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    If the government has more income, that just means they have more money to give to corporations and wealthy people.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    But this doesn't give much more income to the government. Even if $3 Trillion more dollar circulated, disregarding job market dillution and lack of skilled labor, then the GOP defficit adds about a trillion per year and this would only generate about 15% taxes on those wages and other wealth transfers or only 450 billion.

    Also, that 3Tn number makes no sense because each of 4.5M 18 year olds would have to generate $666,666 revenue.

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