There are three ways the federal government is funded:
1. Taxes
2. Federal Reserve
3. Financial Trade*
* This is an offshoot of private placement. The Fed’s have their own platforms and are using them to finance expenses beyond 1 and 2 above.
The takeaway here is that powers within the federal government do not need taxpayers nor do they need Congress performing actions such as raising the debt ceiling.
At that is the issue.
They don’t need us to fund them.