"the country is like a household and will go bankrupt" is one of the worst analogies people make in politics and it's always deployed in bad faith in favor of terrible policies
it's not true! we will not go bankrupt, we do not operate like a household, we even print our own fucking money
it's not true! we will not go bankrupt, we do not operate like a household, we even print our own fucking money
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This is a fear mongering dickhead.
“We cannot sustain as a country $2 trillion deficits,” Musk said. “If this continues, the country will become de facto bankrupt. It’s not an optional thing. It’s essential.”
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“We cannot sustain as a country $2 trillion deficits,” Musk said. “If this continues, the country will become de facto bankrupt. It’s not an optional thing. It’s essential.”
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Don't crash the economy with sudden cuts, and don't cut programs keeping people alive.
Golly, I wonder if there is any similar situation here, and tanking US's credit rating
Sorry for yelling.
*Not at all
They’re trying to fund tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires.
They’re not trying to be fiscally responsible, they’re robbing the public treasury.
Well, it's a start I guess
If you have an open mind and some curiosity, I'm sure you'll learn many, many more things about how the US economy is a clown explosion and end up with plenty more things that really piss you off
That’s what tax cuts for the rich do. It’s the equivalent of quitting a six-figure job to work at Walmart.
Just stop paying him
You can balance the budget by taxing the billionaires, not by cutting their taxes.
like, what does that mean? "run the country at a massive loss hoping Google buys it before it goes bust?" "sell the country to private equity and load it up with debt?"
Or akin to a Russian-style smash and grab operation.
Funny that the GOP and its apparatchiks (including USSC) who always fetishized 'originalism' and faithfulness to 'the founders' are working overtime to recreate rule by an unaccountable king.
Their entire purposes and goals are different.
but also, it's increasingly not even how businesses seem to work, like to some degree the "provide and/or produce a good and/or service" has to happen but that seems increasingly ancillary to the actual priorities