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Venmo, PayPal users can now send money to the US government to help pay down $36.7T national debt (nypost.com)

submitted 1 year ago by maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

That is not how that works at all...

They are in debt because for decades the government kept spending without bringing in tax money to cover it. They borrowed from other countries which creates dept.