• Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Pretty sure they’re saying if we taxes everyone 100%… Collected all the money from everyone in the country, then gave it all back to the central bank we borrowed it from originally, we’d still owe the interest on the debt… With no more money in the system where would we get the “taxes”?

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      7 months ago

      As with most debt, it can’t be paid off immediately or it wouldn’t have been debt to being with. It’s a bet on the future.