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[-] Triumph@fedia.io 31 points 3 months ago

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

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 points 3 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.

[-] BillyClark@piefed.social 4 points 3 months ago

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

[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Because you give them the money, then they use it to generate even more money for the country?

It does come back through taxes? right?

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