When I went to school I didn't need to cite sources to say 2 x (5.5-4 9) = 37-30

Is bad math.

Or if you spend $5.5T a year and your debt increases $3.5T you had $2T in revenue.

good luck have fun. Im out. enjoy your fantasy economics for the few months it has left.

I see someone in this conversation has never heard of interest.

Good luck buddy.

The 6 to 7% they are paying on the $36.4T in debt they accrued ($2.5T)?

That was kinda my entire point, Its on its way back to at least the 15% of the 1980s.

https://longportapp.com/en/news/220249648

You sure did edit the hell out of your post. Obviously you aren't operating in good faith. But I should have figured that when, in your first post, you claimed the US collects $12T in taxes without reference and then ignored my reference showing it false. Have a great week.

The states of the united states collect about $12T in taxes total.

That is GDP times taxation as a % of gdp

roughly $36T times 30%

Precisely what that is doesnt matter, could be $10T, could be $20T

The federal government collects its tax from the states which it does through programs approved in congress.

Those programs are medicare, medicade and military spending + a few hundred billion total in scraps like the FAA or NASA. in total that sums to around $2T, which is all the states are obliged to give the federal government from the taxes they collect, if they dont like it they can choose the nuclear option and simply exit the union - California has a reasonable campaign long time ongoing to do exactly that called calexit - although right at this moment it lacks momentum. According to wikipedia there are growing movements in Alaska, California, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, and New Hampshire to secede.

Those movements will grow very very quickly when the states are actually presented with the now inevitable choice of doubling what they give the federal government while the federal government stops spending on pretty much every federal program - which is the only way the federal government can sustain paying its bills now the interest on their debt is larger than they take in revenue.

> The federal government collects its tax from the states which it does through programs approved in congress.

You’re aware that income tax, corporate income tax and payroll tax are paid directly to the federal government from individuals and companies right? The states don’t collect on the federal government’s behalf.

>nuclear option

There is no nuclear option. The country decided that 160 years ago.