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Re:Universal Basic Income Has Been Tried over and over Again... by lenkite on Friday February 16, 2024 @01:50PM (#39401319)
The folks down-voting you down appear to have no problems with hundreds of billions of dollars spent on War every year - the money for that was printed out of thin air. The current U.S. Biden administration even removed the debt ceiling to do this!
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Re:Universal Basic Income Has Been Tried over and over Again... by vharuck on Friday February 16, 2024 @02:01PM (#39401482)
The US has raised the debt ceiling multiple times across multiple administrations. And the debt ceiling isn't raised so that we can pass a specific bill or take a specific action, it's so we can pay for the bills and actions we agreed to months beforehand.
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