We could of course tax the rich.

  • cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de
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    I said it before and I’ll say it again: the US will default on their debt, possibly soon. The current government isn’t even trying to do anything to avoid this.

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      9 hours ago

      That’s actually the plan circulating around conservative circles now.

      But they’re saying they can ‘selectively default’ debt issued to China as part of a trade rebalancing scheme, basically they charge China $2T in back tariffs and cancel that much in chinese held debt.

      By canceling that much debt they can have the cbo mark their tax cut as balanced.

      Nobody with a brain cell has explained to them why this is insane.

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        ok its gonna tank the global economy but other than that it should be fine