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toomuchtodotoday at 2:48 PM2 repliesview on HN

There is nothing left (edit: discretionary) to cut, and there is no material fraud. Taxes must go up. Only the top 40% of Americans have any income or wealth to tax (bottom 60% of Americans have no federal tax liability). Or, as you mention, we monetize the debt, print dollars, and burn up the currency value.

https://usafacts.org/government-spending/

https://usafacts.org/answers/how-much-debt-does-the-us-have/...


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bhoustontoday at 2:50 PM

> There is nothing left to cut

Hmm.... I found this, I wonder if there is any way this line item in the budget could be reduced, it looks sort of big:

https://www.usaspending.gov/agency/department-of-defense?fy=...

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brightballtoday at 6:04 PM

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48633650

The average federal budget from 2010 to 2020 was $4 trillion. This year it is $7.5 trillion. There's quite a lot to cut.

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