Comment on How was the US national debt created? Does the US have problem paying it's bills? Who are we in debt to?

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gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Yeah, basically every government in the world has some debt that they just keep perpetually refinancing to have additional cash on hand, it’s not a problem until you have other stuff go wrong (e.g. natural disaster, economic slowdown, lose a war, etc.) and your creditors get nervous, and then it can become a real big problem really quickly.

But still, you’re arguably just wasting your government’s power by not using debt/deficit spending, because government debt means paychecks for government workers or contractors and infrastructure or other services for your citizens that can effectively pay for itself in the long term.

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