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An equation to understand America’s financial woes: And it’s not a hard one, either
American Thinker ^ | 03/14/2024 | Jay Davidson

Posted on 04/14/2024 8:35:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

An equation to understand the current confusion: National debt = issuance of Treasury bonds = printing dollars (Q.E.), and increasing the supply of money = federal spending. Therefore, national debt = federal spending. It’s the principle of equivalency.

All those who work for a living, and who make their own way, pay this debt. The recipients of this spending, like welfare and entitlement beneficiaries and federal subsidies like E.V. credits, ride on the effort of those who work. Corporations don’t pay debt; they increase the price of their products and pass it along to buyers. Bottom line: Every citizen bears the burden of federal spending.

Here is another simple equation: Federal spending in excess of tax revenue = debt. So our government’s inability to live within its means, as we citizens do, creates a debt burden on us. Did any of us agree go into debt personally?

Fact is, we are being placed into debt against our will, by bureaucrats who are paid through our taxes and politicians whom we elected. This is insane.

Some would suggest that we tax the rich. How did taxing the rich out of business work out for Hitler, Stalin, and Mao? Fact is, we already do: over 50% of all tax revenue comes from the top 5% of earners. The tax rate is already very progressive — especially when one considers that the bottom 50% of wage-earners pay no taxes, but receive federal benefits in excess of their tax. Like debt, tax rates are self-limiting. As tax rates go up, tax revenue declines because the source of revenue, private businesses and jobs, declines.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: debt; inflation; spending; taxes
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1 posted on 04/14/2024 8:35:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

We have already run into the problem of not being able to sell our Treasuries, and we issue debt. In 2008, the administration started Quantitative Easing (Q.E.), whereby the Federal Reserve printed U.S. dollars to buy U.S. Treasuries. Because no other nation wanted to buy our debt.

Instead of heeding this dire warning, our government issued $8 trillion in new debt — debt that you have to repay. Remember that federal debt = federal spending. The market warned us once in 2008; it is warning us again.


2 posted on 04/14/2024 8:37:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Just don’t try to explain that the higher interest you pay reduces your ability to buy ANYTHING on credit if you don’t have the cash.

AND the Federal Government has to pay MORE interest to make payments on the debt they can’t afford with YOUR money.

Soooooo, the Federal Government will have to tax you MORE just to pay the interest on the debt that they really can’t pay....

So, raise interest rates......LOL


3 posted on 04/14/2024 8:41:24 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: SeekAndFind

We are Argentina...shortly.


4 posted on 04/14/2024 8:41:29 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

At least Argentina has a decent leader now.


5 posted on 04/14/2024 8:42:02 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

[Instead of heeding this dire warning, our government issued $8 trillion in new debt — debt that you have to repay. Remember that federal debt = federal spending. The market warned us once in 2008; it is warning us again.]

2008 is coming. Again.


6 posted on 04/14/2024 8:42:10 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin; dfwgator

Brother, can you spare a wheelbarrow?

I’m trying to load up some cash to go buy a loaf of bread under Joe Biden.


7 posted on 04/14/2024 8:43:33 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: SeekAndFind

And voting works ……


8 posted on 04/14/2024 8:44:40 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them. )
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To: dead

To make things look better, I drew this fat line going up.

George Bush never thought of that!


9 posted on 04/14/2024 8:44:59 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: SeekAndFind

HEY! I’ve got an idea. Let’s SPEND OVER ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS on the UKRAINE PROJECT!

Yeah, that’s the ticket.


10 posted on 04/14/2024 8:45:31 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bkmk


11 posted on 04/14/2024 8:46:42 AM PDT by sauropod (Ne supra crepidam)
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To: House Atreides

Woohoo!!


12 posted on 04/14/2024 8:48:59 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: SeekAndFind

I yearn for the old days when the Chair of the House Appropriations Committee kept a lid on spending, I mean a lid on corruption.

It’s sad when I trust Wilbur Mills and Dan Rostenkowski more than I trust China Mitch and whoever happens to be Speaker.

With not even a pretense of a budget, these continuing resolutions offer corruption never imagined by petty thieves like Mills and Rostenkowski.

All fueled by the phony fear of a gubmint shutdown.


13 posted on 04/14/2024 8:54:40 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: SeekAndFind

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.”


14 posted on 04/14/2024 8:55:27 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin; dfwgator

“We are Argentina...shortly.”

“At least Argentina has a decent leader now.”

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

I’d rather be in a deep hole with great leadership and a plan and a mindset to get out of it, than in a smaller hole that only promises to get deeper with no plan to get out, and led by a senile, pedophilic, warmongering corruptocrat.


15 posted on 04/14/2024 8:56:43 AM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: dfwgator

The pics and vids of Milei meeting with Musk in the last couple days were awesome.

https://twitter.com/eduardomenoni/status/1778876652425986427


16 posted on 04/14/2024 8:57:35 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: SeekAndFind

yet we have the best crappiest money in the world. What does that tell us.


17 posted on 04/14/2024 9:49:38 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: SeekAndFind

WE are in very dire straights. Biden has created a monster that is self-perpetuating. It will not end with him. I’m not at all sure it can ever end except that it is unsustainable. Financial ruin is all that will stop it. Default, collapse and ruin.


18 posted on 04/14/2024 10:08:42 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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To: SeekAndFind

“national debt = federal spending”

That one’s not true but he goes on to say,

“Federal spending in excess of tax revenue = debt.”

That one is true but I’d say “taking on debt.”

He says,

“we are being placed into debt against our will.”

In the final analysis not true because we elect our leaders.

But once we are deceived into allowing the borrowing, we are on the hook to pay it off, no getting out of that.


19 posted on 04/14/2024 10:16:37 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: cymbeline

I haven’t checked lately. Is tax revenue only a small portion of federal spending?


20 posted on 04/14/2024 10:32:36 AM PDT by scrabblehack
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