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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: onepoorguy ⎊✺🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: How Europe wrecked itself
Date: 12/02/25 3:47 PM
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These problems will not be fixed by the Republican Party.

Agreed. Since I was old enough to vote, the Reps have only made the deficit/debt worse. Very consistantly.

...may make it impossible for any democracy-saving solution to be found.

Let's make the math easy. Say 300M people, and a $30T debt. That's $100K per every man/woman/child in this country. I don't think that can be done. Start eliminating those people than don't have the means (which is probably 90%+ of the population), and you're looking at maybe 30M people shouldering most of that burden. Even fixing our tax system probably can't do it at this point.

Not a macro-economist, but I suspect we are headed to a default simply because no one can reasonably believe we can meet that debt obligation.
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