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I'm having a hard time taking this seriously: "only 1.75 trillion" What a ludicrous statement. I mean, I know inflation has been bad but not THAT bad. One o

• Ekaros 2y ago
  It is only what a few thousand per citizen? That is pocket money for FAANG engineers so not a big deal...
  • emchammer 2y ago
    We're not all FAANG engineers.
    • pfannkuchen 2y ago
      Seems like sarcasm and possibly a comment on so-called luxury beliefs.
• ANewFormation 2y ago
  Haha, yeah I should have put quotes around "only" but you have to keep in mind that this ~900billion that remains is the entire government budget for everything besides stuff like medicare, social security, and so on. When people think about government spending they tend to handwave away billions and, as per this thread, millions are seen as a rounding error. But I think thats because most people are thinking about the entire budget - which is around was 6.7 trillion on total revenue of 4.9 trillion. But when "only" 900 billion of that is left for all the neat things government could do it really nails home the impact of things like a trillion dollars per year spent in interest on the debt. It really also makes clear why starting to slim things down is essentially becoming necessary. The current system is not sustainable.