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Re:State of The Union address minute by minute on Twitter by protomyth on Friday February 07, 2014 @10:12PM (#7200149)
Which company continued to spend money in excess of its revenues and took out debt to compensate then somehow without increasing revenue above spending paid off its debt?
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Re:State of The Union address minute by minute on Twitter by dragonwriter on Friday February 07, 2014 @10:19PM (#7200164)
Increasing revenue -- and the source of that increase -- was part of what I pointed to. So your question is irrelevant.
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Re:State of The Union address minute by minute on Twitter by protomyth on Friday February 07, 2014 @10:36PM (#7200198)
And who pays this increased revenue, the tax payer - so your chain of comments to contradict my original point is untrue
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Re:State of The Union address minute by minute on Twitter by dragonwriter on Friday February 07, 2014 @11:18PM (#7200263)
> And who pays this increased revenue, the tax payer

But not out of funds that they would have had without the expenditure. So they have literally given up nothing.

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Re:State of The Union address minute by minute on Twitter by protomyth on Friday February 07, 2014 @11:47PM (#7200311)
You must have missed how those stimulus packages actually worked or have some view of economics that isn't a reality. Debt has an upper limit and revenue increases mean taxpayers pay it. Stimulus doesn't create any wealth and hasn't worked. There is not one concrete case of what you describe working in history.
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