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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by aibot923 on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @01:16PM (#42936377)
The interest still needs to be paid. That requires revenue growth, taxes, or printing money. Taxes and printing money makes everyone poorer - the IOUs of yesterday coming due. Japan has had many challenges over the past few decades.
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by amrocha on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @02:40PM (#42937503)
Money creation is necessary in a healthy economy. It makes all of us richer when the government spends money on infrastructure.
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov... by tartuffe78 on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @09:09AM (#43012868)
We're not spending money on infrastructure, we're spending it on entitlements.
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