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To: reed13k
I’m beginning to wonder with all the forfeitures that will come out of El Chapo, Epstein and all the other traffickers if we won’t be able to pay off the Federal debt within a few years....wouldn’t that be amazing!

Forbes, the leader in finding and estimating private wealth says that's high. His total net worth they estimate at $2-4 Billion.

Does Mexican Drug Lord El Chapo Guzman Have the $14 Billion the US Wants From Him

Let's say you could get $10 billion out of him and another $10 billion out of Epstein and apply it to the debt.

The national debt is $22 Trillion, so the $20 billion would only retire about 1/10th of 1% of the debt. You would need another 2000 billionaire criminals to be convicted and have their wealth confiscated, and thereby to kick in $10 Billion each, to pay off our debt.

That is unlikely.

990 posted on 07/17/2019 2:59:20 PM PDT by Jack Black ("If you believe in things that you don't understand then you suffer" - "Superstition",Stevie Wonder)
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To: Jack Black

I was thinking of all the additional people that I expect as things continue to come out. A LOT of them seem to be very wealthy so say we get a few hundred at the upper echelons.

I know it won’t address ALL of it, but it could put a dent in things...


1,038 posted on 07/17/2019 4:50:05 PM PDT by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary that good men do nothing)
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