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Re:Ohio GOP ends attempt to ban municipal broadband after pr... by NovemberWhiskey on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @07:11PM (#27682952)
Wait, what? No; that's not how that works at all. Where did you read that?

The shortfall between Federal government spending and tax receipts is the deficit. The government has to borrow that money, which it does by having the Treasury issue debt securities.

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Re:Ohio GOP ends attempt to ban municipal broadband after pr... by nl on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @02:40AM (#27685636)
This is correct. I attempt to provide references here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27685631

Not sure where these claims come from either.

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Re:Ohio GOP ends attempt to ban municipal broadband after pr... by selimnairb on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @06:52AM (#27687055)
Federal government deficit=private sector surplus. The money is conserved. Federal surplus=private sector surplus. People who want to balance the federal budget either don’t know what they are talking about, or are cynically trying to redistribute money to the wealthy.
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