It doesn’t help that so many are sitting on their backsides collecting freebie covid checks instead of working and contributing to Soc Sec.
The problem is that we have gone into the event horizon of dead empires.
That is the magic moment when the folks pulling the cart figure out they would be better off riding on it.
Once you enter the event horizon there is no avoiding the eventual destruction of the black hole—it is just a matter of time...
Over half of Americans or America pays Zero federal income taxes. In fact, many of those same folks pay no federal income taxes yet STILL receive a refund because of child tax credit and or other gimmies from the feds.