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The Debt Ceiling Is a Fiscal Fraud: Abolish It
AMUSE on X ^ | 1 Jul, 2025 | @AMUSE

Posted on 07/02/2025 11:09:34 AM PDT by MtnClimber

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To: MtnClimber

Congress can just spend less money!


21 posted on 07/03/2025 12:59:53 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Making money now. Still want much more.)
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To: All; MtnClimber

Only eliminate it after passing a mandatory annual balanced budget requirement.


22 posted on 07/03/2025 1:10:14 AM PDT by Drago
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To: reasonisfaith
The Federal Reserve is a much bigger fiscal fraud.

The Federal Reserve isn't spending our tax dollars.

23 posted on 07/03/2025 5:36:14 AM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (TANSTAAFL)
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To: MtnClimber

A Constitutional amendment that requires the debt level to be no more than X percent of the GDP while and also cannot be consuming, in debt interest payments, no more than X percent of the federal budget, and all the while must be part of a balanced budget, with any consequential deficit in a given quarter requiring the chief executive to make offsetting expenditure reductions the following quarter, where the chief executive chooses.


24 posted on 07/03/2025 1:32:02 PM PDT by Wuli (uire)
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To: MtnClimber

No debt ceiling has ever stopped a higher debt.


25 posted on 07/03/2025 1:38:42 PM PDT by CodeToad
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No debt ceiling has ever stopped a higher debt.

Only a law with criminal penalties will stop deficit spending....or civil action against legislators...or economic collapse.

26 posted on 07/03/2025 1:53:03 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

The Federal Reserve is the reason our income taxes are being taken from us in the first place.

Also, the Federal Reserve taxes us further when they print money.

1. printing money causes inflation
2. inflation means our dollars are worth less than before
3. spending more to buy the same things is a hidden tax


27 posted on 07/03/2025 4:43:51 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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The Federal Reserve is the reason our income taxes are being taken from us in the first place.

Where did you get that idea?

Also, the Federal Reserve taxes us further when they print money.

What do they do with it, after they print it?

28 posted on 07/03/2025 5:44:00 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (TANSTAAFL)
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