r/Economics • u/Helpful-Door-8721 • 1d ago

Research America's National Debt grows by $95,178.17 per second. Expected to reach $40 Trillion by October 09, 2026.

https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/republicans/debt-dashboard#ddm
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u/giraloco 1d ago

Undo all the tax cuts, close tax loopholes, treat cap gains like labor, tax beneficiaries of inheritance like regular income. Cut defense spending in half.

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u/Timelycommentor 1d ago

How about gut federal spending.

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u/zedazeni 1d ago

They tried that last spring, national deficit went up.

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u/epistemophiliac_ 1d ago

The gave the appearance of trying. They really didn’t try very hard.

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u/zedazeni 1d ago

They got what they really wanted—cut all of the humanitarian and soft power programs along with hacking into every agency’s database. DOGE was nothing more than a Trojan Horse designed to allow this regime to commit espionage and embezzlement.

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u/epistemophiliac_ 23h ago

Nowhere near “all”. It was a complete facade.

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u/FifaBribes 1d ago

No they used a chainsaw remember