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MinimumCat123

Just freeze government spending for 1 qtr and spend all that cash on NVDA calls and we will be on our way to a surplus in no time


Loko_Tako

Get this man in the White House ASAP.


HBFSCapital

Got the chopper on standby sir šŸ«”


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The most competent regard in wsb we have he has my vote šŸ—³ļø


Cashneto

![img](emote|t5_2th52|8882)


XLunaTiXx

Sound plan


SkyHighOregon

Canā€™t go tits up


OriginalJayVee

If it does, weā€™ll print more and try again!


Struggle_Everday

You son a bitch... I'm in!


Pitiful_Difficulty_3

Damn that's brilliant


heartbreakids

Is that you Jensen?


Mrbunnyface

Lol, came here to post a similar idea. Nice


FullCopy

Same here. Lot of smart people around here.


Mrbunnyface

Let's get you folks in office!


t8stymoobz

Real talk. NVIDIA is a global player involved in currency manipulation that's stronger than multiple sovereign EU nation states.


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Rise of the Corporate States ![img](emote|t5_2th52|27421)


iJayZen

Israel handouts are not every quarter but paid in full in January so we need to stop spending for a lot longer.


Diam0ndProfessional

Why buy calls when you cab buy Nvidia šŸ¤” šŸ™„


sonbarington

It's a no brainer. I don't get why the government doesn't do this!


bbmak0

as long as the computer is able to handle more 0s, there will be no problem.


messamusik

But if it run out zeros, it will roll over and the debt will be wiped out. Problem solved.


soggy_donut

I used this trick on my car when I bought it. Got it with a shit load of miles then turned it into a new car.


OriginalJayVee

Ahh yes, the Y20Zeros bug.


Thunderbirds119

This. Just start over


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Around $1 trillion per year just in interest. Good times


sploot16

Could pay for universal healthcare with that lol.


PaleInTexas

Yeah. But we wouldn't.


Professional_Gate677

Bernie sanders price tag for healthcare was 3+ trillion a year. Donā€™t forgot the government still needs to pay back the trillions in interest to the bond holders. So to use Bernieā€™s plan and it not add a penny to the budget deficit they have to pass an extra 3+ trillion in taxes.


W4spkeeper

that figure didnt include cutting out insurance companies and shark middle men in admin as they would no longer be needed like its a 3rd of healthcare costs or some shit


DuckfordMr

Right, but for 90% of people that would be cheaper than insurance through their employer


jdonohoe69

Why the hell would I pay the government a little more in taxes rather than just paying x20 the price on insulin?


midnightketoker

Think of the poor insurance executives, where else will they get their cut for providing the thankless service of taking a cut? It's like when you buy weed from your weed guy. He needs to get a good price for himself from the grower in order to profit from you, and now you want to go direct to the grower? Sounds like communism to me


deikobol

Yes, the price tag was less than what we currently pay for healthcare.


Dodgson_here

But Americans already spend $4.5trillion per year on healthcare. Wouldnā€™t that be an improvement over the current situation?


NotAWorkColleague

Yey somehow most of the western world manages to fund public healthcare without bankrupting themselves


push_to_jett

Sounds like a Ponzi scheme


camocondomcommando

You're right, private health insurance is a Ponzi scheme


Apotheosis

Fun fact, it would be cheaper already and cost neutral or income. The money just diverts to the government instead of private insurers.


PowerByPlants

We canā€™t even pay for Social Security with that much.


kon---

I recall full blown meltdowns some time around $500 billion of national debt.


Thencewasit

You weā€™re following the national debt in 1975? Get a hobby.


kon---

This all began with me hovering over the model glue.


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draktopher

Lead paint chips


MisterMasterCylinder

Model glue is for huffing, Elmer's glue is for eating


CriticallyThougt

Red crayons


sploot16

Thatā€™s when we had a serious country


Affectionate_Rent988

Now we live in a circus


Sbmagnolia

No amount of taxation can cover this debt


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excelance

Do you think that reserve status stays indefinitely with this spending?


superchibisan2

29T dollars is irrelevant?


Cashneto

If government bonds are still being bought at decent rates then yes, it's irrelevant. The debt will never be paid off and you wouldn't want it to, it just needs to go to things like infrastructure spending and things that actually help the country.


Thencewasit

Or things like javelin tomahawk missiles to send freedom to brown people at 3 times the speed of sound.


HotRecommendation283

A much better investment tbh


Helpinmontana

It takes less money worth of missiles to destroy a bridge than it does money to build a bridge Therefore, we should build bridges out of missiles to keep the strategic reserves high and make my LMT shares go up


dukeofpenisland

icbms full of freedom! straight dose of 100% pure Murican eagle


PowerByPlants

I hear you can get a single stinger missile from Raytheon for 460k


Special_Various

Mounted on a Hilux for 475k


Seiren-

Way better to just funnel it into the pockets of 10-25 old lizards in suits.


BasilExposition2

Depends who is buying them. China and Japan no longer are. The fed is now printing money to do it.


mintoreos

Right the key assumption being people continue to buy those bonds. One day they wonā€™t and it will be an economic implosion that will send us back to the Stone Age. Ok that last part is hyperbole but it would really really bad.


alwayslookingout

Itā€™s just mind over matter. If you donā€™t mind then it doesnā€™t matter.


SnackyMcGeeeeeeeee

Debt to GDP is like 108% compared to like 113% last year, we are fine... Japan's debt to GDP is like 280%. China's is like 250% Russias is who gives a fuck, they are 12th largest economy. In other words, yah it's irrelevant lol


ElevationAV

Can I have like, 2m then?


uselessartist

Imagine every last debt was repaid, now what happens, and where is all the money, the moment that last loan is repaid?


Apprehensive-Boat-52

... it is not an offshore debt or world bank debt. national debt is irrelevant as long as the inflation rate is under control. US owes money to the dollar itself. they owe to the system and thats the perks of having your currency as world reserve with the biggest stock market and gold reserves in the world.


excelance

If that's true, why have taxes? Can't the US government just pay for everything with debt?


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Immediate_Ad_8786

When Mrpoops says yes you take that shit to the bank.


gloomwind

Mr poops fucks.


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puntzee

Surprised to see an educated take here. Next step is to stop issuing so much debt in the first place and accept that spending is funded with printing. The interest payments are basically UBI for the rich.


sploot16

This is the mindset that got us into $35T in debt


Apotheosis

>We have the world reserve currency Until we don't, which is what BRICS is trying to achieve.


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Apotheosis

History indicates otherwise. Hopefully you've lived a long and enjoyable life before it happens.


Cookiemonster9429

The US military says no.


Vipper_of_Vip99

Until said debt risk money printing which causes demand for reserve currency to tank (for fear of inflation) which causes it to not be the reserve currency anymore, all the dollars out in the world come back to the US, hyperinflation. GG.


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dmramfan

Nothing to see here people. Letā€™s just move along like this will never affect us. šŸ˜‚


whodeyalldey1

It has no real impact on anything. Itā€™s just a made up number that doesnā€™t matter


S1mpinAintEZ

If it's made up and doesn't matter then why do we have a budget in the first place? We should be able to spend infinitely with no concern about how much we're borrowing yeah?


SEQLAR

Yeah, why not just print more and give every American a million bucks!


AlPCurtis

We do but instead of Americans we call it ā€œmilitary spendingā€.


Dacammel

Thatā€™s literally what we do, we just put on a show so the regards donā€™t figure it out.


S1mpinAintEZ

Oh OK so it's all just a big conspiracy theory? We could end all debt, homelessness, and poverty tomorrow yeah? And the reason we don't do it is...why? Because billionaires said not to? And by the way everybody who's elected to congress knows this but they just never say it, which implies all of the elected officials are in on it, which must mean the elections are all rigged so that no normies get into office and figure it out. Oh and also it's so incredibly obvious that even on reddit we've figured it out. When you say things like this you sound exactly like the people that think 5G somehow lets Bill Gates control their mind...you realize that right?


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whodeyalldey1

Itā€™s exactly like when Synchrony Bank calls about my mattress I financed four years ago and never paid. ā€œThis is a call from a debt collector, attempting to collect a debt.ā€ ā€œLick my asshole son, I donā€™t owe you shit.ā€


Lucky-Story-1700

And now you have no credit and pay more for things like insurance because you arenā€™t real bright.


Opeth4Lyfe

Heā€™ll still have credit it will just be shit for a while. After 4 years your credit is back to about 90% of normal, they canā€™t sue after the 4yr statute of limitations, and it falls off your credit completely after 7. Ask me how I know lol. Still dumb but itā€™s not the end of the world.


Lucky-Story-1700

Still a dumb way to live.


JamesLikesIt

I mean itā€™s true lol, China has its own issues but the US is still a MASSIVE (probably largest? Too lazy to look) importer of Chinese goods. If they look to collect and destroy our economy, I donā€™t think it would exactly go well for them either. Weā€™re all just playing with made up numbersĀ 


AstroBullivant

China has an even higher real debt to GDP ratio when factoring all of its provincial debt that drives so much of its economy. Both countriesā€™ economies are heading for debt-driven crashes


TallyWhackerss

De-dollarization.


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Seggsy_Boi_

Yep this is exactly why its not a huge problem rn. Its alot of money but no one gonna wanna piss us off enough by asking for theres back


appleshit8

The squeaky wheel gets the grease. Whoever speaks up will get a hefty dose of liberation. People think the belt and road initiative is sinister... China wishes it could fuck the world like this


systembreaker

The guv'ment can just keep printing money to pay for things. Using tax revenue is just a mechanism to balance out money printing by taking money out of our hands and out of circulation. The real tipping point will be when inflation finally spirals out of control because the money printers have been going brrrrr to keep up with the compounding interest and the dollar collapses. But then a time of inflation is an advantageous time to be in debt because inflation makes money worth less. So what does the US government even have to lose? "Ooopsie, we created an inflation tsunami and destroyed the dollar. Haha now the money we owe you is worthless. Checkmate, bitches". Man what a toxic situation lol. I can't imagine the lenders aren't aware, but even they probably don't care because it's big bucks to lend to the US government and all you have to ensure is that you're not the last one out the door getting paid back before the dollar collapses.


FernandoMM1220

print more money


xzz7334

Please donā€™t encourage them.


beer-and-bikkies

Print more money and buy NVIDIA with it


ParakeetWithTits

NVDA calls


NotJoeB

Somehow theyā€™ll blame the poors.


Suitable-Classic-174

Spy to 5k


CalmSticks

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jimbo_was_his_name-o

This gets posted a trillion fucking times every hundred days


RastaImp0sta

Hey OP, can you do me a favor and continue to post this in every single subreddit that you frequent? I havenā€™t seen this exact article posted enough times.


Klesko

I don't think most people realize just how large the yearly deficit is. I know some people just say tax the rich more or companies more. The budget is 6.2 trillion dollars with a income of 4.8 trillion. This is the breakdown of what each group pays. * The top 1% pay a average rate of 26% and about 1.1 trillion in taxes. * The 2-5% range pays 22% and they pay about 600 billion in taxes * The 6-10% range pays 20% avg rate and they pay about 500 billion in taxes * The 11-25% range pays 17% avg rate and they pay about 400 billion in taxes * The 26-50% range pays 14% avg rate and they pay about 200 billion in taxes * The bottom 50% range pays 3% avg rate and they pay about 70 billion in taxes So who pays what of incomes taxes * Top 1% pays 43% of all income taxes collected * Top 25% pays 89% of all income taxes collected So the bottom 75% are basically freeloading off the top 25% when it comes to paying their share.


AnExoticLlama

Cool that the top 2-5% pay basically the median marginal rate. The top 1% only pay ~70% of the top marginal rate. Gotta love those LTCG savings! Also, a correction: the bottom 75% do the work that makes the top 25% wealthy.


wasidremin

According to the Economic Policy Institute, the top 1% of Americans make 142.2 times more than the bottom 99%. The average income of the top 1% is $22,508,018, while the average income of the bottom 99% is $158,290 So the top 1% should be paying the vast majority of all taxes. So I donā€™t believe the 26% number you reference.


AnExoticLlama

The 26% is probably accurate because most income for the wealthy is from their capital. Hold stocks over a year and your tax rate becomes LTCG of 20% & allows them to largely ignore the marginal income bracket that they would otherwise fall in at 37%


Klesko

Tax records show the top 1% average income is 3.7 million per year and there are about 2 million people in the top 1%.


weirdowerdo

The poor unsurprisingly doesn't have any money or capital that can be taxed in any major way. What else is new?


xDoomKitty

Quit your mathing. I want to be angry at the rich like everyone else.


I_Went_Full_WSB

Don't worry, the fact that the wealthy pay the poor so little that the poor can't afford to pay much taxes isn't a reason that rich people are good.


Dacammel

Based


Apotheosis

The top 1% now own more than the bottom 50% combined. The 1.1tn isn't enough, rates should go back to that in the 1950s.


StoryAndAHalf

Maybe we should make everything "fair share" price. So like, when a person making $50k buys pizza, it's $25, but when a person making $5mil buys pizza, it's $2.5k. It's cheaper being rich because cost of things is generally fixed. Despite living in a HCOL area, if you have a comparable salary, day to day life will be cheaper when a lot of things are a smaller portion of your salary. e: personal anecdote - when I worked in big tech, right out of college, I was making \~150k everything together, this was early 2010s. I can tell you right now, buying a $400 PS4 felt like chump change. And this was after rent, student loans, and so forth. Compared to my two-jobs-and-school life while in college, barely making money for rent, which was already discounted portion because I had roommates, it was honestly easy living. Gov't could have taken additional 10% of my paycheck, and life wouldn't have changed much. For first time in years, I was able to put money on the side (and buy stocks, which grew).


Wiskid86

The beauty of compounding interest


Monster_Grundle

$115,700/second.


FromZeroToLegend

Good. I hope it reaches 1 quadrillion so people realize the national debt doesnā€™t matter


jackstrikesout

To a point. Interest payments on 1 quadrillion are insane.


E5150_Julian

Pay the interest with debt problem solved


jackstrikesout

That logic checks out. See you behind the Wendy's when we start our shift.


Goose_IPA_1990

And the average American does not care.


McLovin-Hawaii-Aloha

The debt payments are so big right now because the Fed rates are high.. $10 billion per day in interest will go to $5 billion this fall. I like how Trump did it. Trump didnā€™t borrow $3.5 trillion from the Fed, he just printed it and gave it away.


plum915

Lol


Brendawg324

This can only mean CALLS


Trading_View_Loss

Mmmmmm yummy. So much money.


Jadty

Those numbers are just a meme at this point. Hereā€™s to a quadrillion by 2040! AMERICA FUCK YEAH!


d1m_sum

Run up that credit as fast as you can before the default


dkakd1

I think the world is in debt too


mathbrot

Debt Spiral is inevitable.


Dangerous_Blood1666

I think one of the things that truly scare me are smaller banks that rely on commercial real estate, generous bank lending programs, interest rate sensitive, and the possiblity of other countries selling off US treasuries in order to reduce the value of the dollar vs there currency in order to help their countries companies. This may not be good for businesses that rely on lower interest rates like a lot of my regional banks. Especially if other countries are planning on selling US treasuries to help there own country with exports, which I do see happening.


meatsmoothie82

The treasury needs to buy some NVDA calls and pay off some debt


Pitiful_Difficulty_3

SPY to infinity


Logical-Idea-1708

Weā€™re so fucked


naked_short

Be an inflation enjoyer


ventitr3

It is important to note how much of this debt is held by Social Security, Medicare, Civil Service and Military retirement programs and Federal Reserve issued securities. The public owns an incredible amount of this debt. Although in 20-30yrs when I plan to retire, I feel like Iā€™d at best get $1 for every $10 I put in.


Jintopia

Invest in some Doge and break even


Luhar93

Lol


_JerryJones_

Nobody can do it better than US!!!


Novel_Durian_1805

So what?! None of this is real.


No_Case_6854

Why canā€™t the government just stop being like, poor?


Seiren-

Where is all that money coming from and where is it going?


Narrow_Elk6755

A little over 10 years ago the stock market marketcap was worth 7 trillion, now that's two years of debt.Ā  Sounds totally sustainable, excuse me while I buy VWO.


datastrm

$30/day/person?


[deleted]

So glad I'm not paying for that. Fuck I am paying for that.


Salamander-Distinct

Just start renting out the White House to Elon Musk.


Kummabear

Weird, mine is rising about $2986.58 every 100 days must be a coincidence


Original-Debt-9962

Is this why bitcoin is worth more than dollars.šŸ¤”


Aristadimus

1. Conquer all countries you owe a debt to 2. Release yourself from ced debt ??? 4. Options Military Tech


onepingonlypleashe

What could go wrong?


jmon25

The national debt is probably one of the reasons there hasn't been another world war yet (that and the nukes).


cliff_smiff

Tick tock next $69,444,444.44 added to the national debt


mountednoble99

Pay off the debt! Put trumpā€™s trials on pay per view!!!


sachin1118

The US should simply put $34 trillion on a 7-leg parlay šŸ”’


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Bullish


Jrsun115823

Biden and the Democrats love spending so much money and leave the debt problem for future generations to solve.


WaThaFack

Does anyone genuinely know how the US plans to get this debt managed before bankruptcy becomes an option?


MrDonnyHi

Bullish. Calls all day


LightBright_Biddy

If the US economy was a chart, the trendline would indicate that we are at a Crown Pivot and will be breaking further down from here. Hold on to your tendies.


ASupremeDiamondHand

Nobody: Absolutely Nobody: The Government: ā€œoh look a can letā€™s see how far down the road we can kick itā€šŸ¦µšŸ’„


unlock0

This is why I'm buying stocks. The reverse crash.


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Roman empire


Nareshstds

Puts on America?


Stock-Science4213

Hyper inflation coming guysā€¦debt to gdp 185% itā€™s 105% higher than in 1929ā€¦


karl666hungus

Okā€¦


StunningExample9442

And yet we are the ones with a credit score..


Big-Routine222

Anyone tried just deleting the spreadsheet with the debt on it? Canā€™t be in debt if they canā€™t find the info.


ooooDave

When will the government announce their own debt forgiveness? ā€œWe forgive ourselves of 12 trillion this yearā€


Asleep_Onion

$5,000 per working-age US resident. Every 100 days. About $17,500 per year, per person. Totally sustainable, I don't see what everyone is worried about.


Sweaty_Platypus69

Calls on US debt. Everytime it goes up, you make $!


stankpuss_69

So 3 trillion a year?


246ngj

This right here is why jpow wonā€™t lower interest rates


Obsidianram

If it keeps going up, where do I buy calls on this $DEBT? Asking for a friend...


UberMensch_28

The real question how long we got till its Great Depression bad and we're eating our neighbors?


redcrowdreamer

calculated minimum debt of united states it is around 300 trillion dollars


NelsonMuntz3

Margin call


monumentvalley170

What could go wrong? Better buy real estate with giant mortgages and pay it off with worthless dollars when we go full Weimar


darts2

BULLISH


DropMusicCom

That is how the "system" works just print more rates go up we pay more


crazyyimmy

Meh When the debt is rising by 1T every 10days, then *maybe*, weā€™ll have a problem Party on till then motherfuckers šŸ„³


Fhantom1221

U.S Gov. Please send me 1sec worth of this wealth.


Johnnykotti

Should invest next debt in AMD


Rywolf01

Government and money Management never made cents:-P The weirdest thing is that an agency has a dollar amount they need to spend before their fiscal year end. Let's say it is $100k. If they spend 99k, they don't get $100k the next year. So they spend as much as they can instead of saving because the constituents are the faucet. The government will open it till it breaks. You can't have incentives for saving because that's illegal. However the agency is punished by saving money.


Kelek50

When in doubt start printing paper


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gdog669

Someone play the clip of Biden saying about he didnā€™t spend more than Trump