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I don’t think Americans would enjoy the alternative of defaulting on that debt, or the counterfactual of not having raised that debt in the first place But yea

• browningstreet 6mo ago
  But they didn’t scream when that debt ballooned very recently. Debt payments and defense budget increases add up.
• atmavatar 6mo ago
  > or the counterfactual of not having raised that debt in the first place I'm pretty sure most of us would enjoy a different timeline where we didn't sink over $1 trillion in the Iraq war or another $2 trillion on the F-35, where we didn't mindlessly increase the military budget every cycle, where Republican administrations didn't cut taxes on the wealthy every time they won the presidency in the last half century, or where the TSA and DHS weren't created.
  • Rekindle8090 6mo ago
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    • atmavatar 6mo ago
      What do you think debt means? Every item I mentioned either increased government spending or reduced its income, both of which contribute to increased deficits and debt. You're welcome to argue whether I'm correct that americans would be better off without any of them, but it's simple math that every single one of them contributed to our current debt.
    • alsetmusic 6mo ago
      If you don't count the quote (which I never do because it's not the words of the commenter), they only wrote one long sentence.