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The federal government ran another big deficit in June, as the national debt inches closer to $35 trillion.$35 trillion USD.Trillion with a 'T.' That's an unfathomable number. It's meaningless to most people. We simply can't comprehend a number that big.Let's try to put the $34.9 trillion national debt into perspective.According to the National Debt Clock, every American citizen would have to write a check for $103,565 to pay off the national debt. Of course, a lot of people don't pay taxes. That means the taxpayer burden is much higher. Every U.S. taxpayer would have to write a check for $266,953...

Let’s say it would cost $5.5 trillion dollars to wipe out your city by planting landmines under all the streets and sidewalks. Another proposal on the table is to wipe out the city by buying old poison gas on the dark web, and planting it in public buildings and public places when crowds are expected; this proposal only costs $3.5 trillion. A third proposal, only just recently promulgated, would involve the hiring of foreign mercenaries to shoot up the place; they work cheap, by comparison, and the bill is expected to only range between $1.5 and $1.75 trillion to wipe...

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has told the White House the child tax credit must include a firm work requirement and family income cap in the $60,000 range, people familiar with the matter tell Axios.

Things just keep getting worse for the liberal media in their efforts to insulate President Joe Biden and his party’s onerous $3.5 trillion budget bill from criticism. Americans are seeing right through the propaganda. A new poll of 1,076 likely voters found that a combined 71.5 percent were “Much less likely” (67.3%) or “Somewhat less likely" (4.2%) to support the gargantuan budget bill if they knew “it increases taxes and the national debt.” Things got worse for Biden when the poll was broken down by demographics. An astonishing 73.7 percent of Independents and 50.2 percent of Democrats — both majorities...

Reflections on what the Build Back Better Act is really about... “Hey, do we have seventy-five bucks each?” “Seventy-five bucks?” “Yeah, seventy-five bucks each.” “You mean for you and me, so it’s $150?” “Well, it’s for the kids too, so it’s $375, total.” “Oh. Well…. I don’t know… Depends.” “Can we do it or not?” “Well, I don’t know, when would we need it? Is this for today?” “I’m thinking, we could charge it… or you could volunteer for some overtime for a couple weeks… or I could hock Grandpa’s watch….” “Well, it depends. Tell me… What’s all this for?”...