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Re:To Tame the Debt and Inflation, We Need to Increase Taxes by dragonwriter on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @04:53PM (#35252391)
> Well, knowing Congress, which do you think they're going to do?

Your position requires assuming Congress would not spend money if it wanted to but it required increasing deficits, and we know from history (recent and otherwise) that that is not a practical constraint, so...

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Re:To Tame the Debt and Inflation, We Need to Increase Taxes by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @05:11PM (#35252622)
Fair point. But I worry that, if they didn't have the pressure about increasing the deficit, they'd spend even more...
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