I feel like the well has been poisoned regarding national debt talk. There is simply no point in having a conversation about the debt without discussing how revenue should be raised and/or expenses lowered. That means someone focusing purely on the debt being bad is likely doing it because they know their specific proposals for addressing it won't be popular.

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someguydave 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Raising taxes is really not part of the solution because increasing tax rate rates will likely not yield more tax collection. The real problem is immense spending on seniors to live a free life

	▲	slg 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		>increasing tax rate rates will likely not yield more tax collection What's so special about our current tax rates that you're making this claim? Because if you believe that higher tax rates don't yield more tax collected, why not argue for tax rates to approach 0%? So either you're couching your real and unpopular opinion like I described in my first comment or you're claiming that our tax rates are optimized for tax collected.

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SirFatty 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

yes, and we can't tax our way out of this situation.

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drcongo 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"popular" is why this mess has happened.

	▲	slg 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Should we just do away with democracy?