Quote Originally Posted by spaldy View Post
Oz, thanks for correcting on debt. It's $356k per taxpayer. We have a lot of citizens that don't pay any taxes as you can see from the difference in debt per citizen vs taxpayer. We also have 24,700,000 government workers. Many could be eliminated with little or no impact on our everyday lives. In fact, many of us would enjoy a better quality of life without them. Trump is making them go back to work so we can only hope their lifes become as miserable as they make ours. Many have not reported into an office since covid began.

https://www.usdebtclock.org/

Not sure on your debt statement. I think the Chinese own a whole lot of our debt. Not sure how you find out what percentage they have.

PS- FWIW, I think every citizen in the US should have to pay taxes. Even if they receive welfare, housing, food stamps and free utilities they should have to file and pay taxes. even it's just a $100. they need to experience the joy of trying to file taxes and if there are issues interact with the federal government. Let them experience the value they receive for paying them trillions of dollars. If they can't get it fixed let them experience the joy of trying to reach their representative or interact with the court system.
Like i said most of it is within but if you want to go further foreign 22% rest is within so about 7.5 trillion.
Every citizen? retired people would have done enough why tax them to the grave. I mean they still pay taxes when they purchase things. I recall telling people here that the rich don't pay taxes and got rebuffed not sure if it was you! By saying the rich keep the country going by paying taxes Over here the saying is have a great accountant what are taxes?
I tell you what though I noticed something as when they are talking about the debt and how they going to sack workers by the millions to balance the books! WTF was all that BS they went through which lasted all day and cost 2.1 trillion dollars when debt is so high? Talking about the yanks doing things differently Pardons, criminals in the top job , Old man sleeping on the job MIME tokens that added billions to trump retirement fund not to mention al Capone dressed first lady mime notes just add a few extra billion. Spaldy your country just like the rest of the world is farked and things are just starting. Over here a packet of cigarettes cost Peter Jackson Original Blue 40s
$94.95 if you work it out i get 540 a week can you see our cost of living been exploited by the corrupt politicians.
Like I said before is if what Trump promises all comes true which I doubt your in big trouble.