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Old 04-28-2024, 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted by donquixote99 View Post
A big fat sack of polemics on the scale, seems to me. 'Welfare state' rhetoric when welfare is 18% of the Fed budget. The US taxes way under what most developed economies tax. Increase the tax just half the way from where we are to the average, and we'd wipe out the deficit, and could pay off the debt.

The actual problem is the top wealth hoarders would rather loan money to the government and get interest on it forever, rather than pay taxes.
I do not read here "Welfare state rhetoric". What I see is criticism of spending in general and the interplay between the Federal reserve and the Federal government.

The Federal reserve is facilitating the Federal government profligate behavior and avoidance of tax implementation by creating fake demand for treasure bonds.

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