2024 US Presidential Election

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This is a bi-partisan issue. The debt goes up *whoever* is in charge

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It tends to be worse with Republicans in charge. More importantly the Democrats don’t have the obsession with cutting taxes.

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The lie that many of you tell yourselves is that we can grow our way out of debt. At 35 trillion plus, the math does *not* support your assumptions.

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I think you’ll find that’s a Republican “lie” - one of their “justifications” for cutting taxes. “Trickle-down” is another.

Show your math. --Percy

The truth is that debt is something that governments can manage as long as the debt doesn't get too high. The only question is how high is too high. You are always talking up the BRICS nations, but China's government debt is about 3 times what the US debt is in terms of percentage of GDP.