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National debt: Report finds U.S. debt higher than thought
- xhkkffbf 2y agoThe number is pretty hard to calculate because it should include any obligation, not just official debts. If the government promised to, say, cover certain expenses in retirement like health care, the true debt should include a realistic estimate of just how much that health care would cost. Not that anyone can predict which new treatments will appear or what they would cost.
- rayiner 2y agoIt really shouldn’t include those things, because you can renege on those without defaulting on your debts.
- willcipriano 2y agoIf the US reneged on those things, I wouldn't consider any of this "my debts" anymore.
- time0ut 2y agohttps://archive.ph/gl8FJ https://archive.ph/gl8FJ
- lenerdenator 2y agoIt really is amazing how the country decided to do two things simultaneously: 1) Create a world order heavily dependent on globalization wherein the international economy has very little redundancy and relies heavily on one country's dominance in security and economic matters to keep everyone more-or-less happy 2) Make the revenues needed to maintain such a world order impossible to get because of a flat-out refusal to pay taxes on profits accrued from such a world order
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