Great news…Democrats can help pay down the debt via Venmo and PayPal.

So that means that you don't think the debt is a problem? Funny how fast that happened.

 

Super troll-y thread. Mission accomplished.

 

So it is a problem? Cool. So, are you planning on paying it, ignoring the problem, or just complaining about it while not paying it?

Also, what is this surplus over the past two months combined, specifically?

 

Another troll thread by op.

 

Why would I, or any of you, pay down a bill our own leaders don’t give a crap about?

 

Ha, wha? D’s have to pay for R’s tax cuts or not complain?

Yoda super jelly over that mind trick.

 

It’s about three-fiddy ($3.50)

 

Were you voicing your strong opposition to Trump's Deficit Funded Tax Cuts for the Rich Bill?

Crazy - guy added appx $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and $3.5 trillion to the debt ...... and got it to pass by cutting about $1 trillion in services to people, including the most vulnerable among us.

Can you imagine supporting that?!

 

This is great. All the people that were against tax cuts because it increase the debt can donate the extra money to the debt and find something else to complain about

 

We've always had tariff income as long as we've had tariffs. You DO realize that we pay for them right? I mean if you don't know that by now, you're too far gone.
Don't tell me the corporations are eating them, that's a lie. The smaller businesses are going out of business because they weren't prepared to pre order.

So, let's cut our tax income instead of increasing it on the most wealthy amongst us and offer the public a venmo so we can pay even more? Get outta here with that. Double bird incoming.

 

Hmm, do they now? What is the evidence to back this statement across the entire economy? Because trade wars generally harm employment.

Tariffs are 'lose-lose' for U.S. jobs and industry, economist says: 'There are no winners here'

And how do they do that? By lowering their competition and increasing prices on consumers?

NAFTA was bipartisan. And dramatically lowered prices on consumers.

Wow, you really don't like consumers, huh? And tariffs in most countries are quite low, despite what Trump has told you.

 

The economist isn't from CNBC. Did you read the article?

Sure. Here is the impact of NAFTA on tariff rates. Canada ended up with lower rates, while Mexico had very similar rates, with all of the rates dramatically lowered.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Tariff-Rates-in-the-US-Canada-and-Mexico_fig5_265430596

As a reminder, many other countries had agreed to zero out their tariffs as part of TPP, but Trump cancelled that.

So? What was the change in real per capita GDP over that time? Oh right, we grew from about $50K per capita to about $67K. So the average American is better off by about 34% over that time. Sounds rough.

The ability of US companies to import products also increases jobs. That is why we have had some of the lowest unemployment rates in US history over the last 15 years. Outside of Covid, we have been at what economists refer to as full employment for about a decade.

Of course, my economics degrees taught me that.

 

Well if you're so concerned about the debt, you can now send the government money via paypal.

 

Tax cuts don't rack up debt... SPENDING, OVER-SPENDING racks up debt.

One of these days you will understand that concept. Budgets, living within our means, is another concept you might want to look up.

 

100%. We should have people volunteer to give up all their SS and Med as well.